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refrefh and fupplc them, but alfo convey 

 nourifhment to them : But in the cafe of 

 fliarp frofts after fhowers of rain, thele (hel 

 ters and other fences muft needs be of ex- 

 cellent ufe to prevent the almoft total de- 

 ftru&ion which is occafioned by the freez- 

 ing of the tender parts of vegetables, when 

 they are full faturate with rain. 



The full proof we have from thefe Ex- 

 periments, of the ferviceablenefs of the leaves 

 in drawing up the fap, and the care we fee 

 nature takes, in furnifliing the twigs with 

 plenty of them, principally near the fruit, 

 may inftrud us on the one hand, not to be 

 too lavifli in pruning them off, and to be 

 ever mindful to leave fome on the branch 

 beyond the fruit 5 and on the other hand, to 

 be as careful to cut off all fuperfluons (hoots, 

 which we are allured do draw off in wafte 

 great quantity of nourifliment. And might 

 it not be advifeable, among many other ways 

 which are prefcribed, to try whether the 

 too great luxuriancy of a tree or branch 

 could not be much checked by pulling off 

 fome of its leaves ? How many experience 

 will bed teach us, the pulling all off will 

 endanger the killing the branch or tree. 



There is another very confiderable ufe of 

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