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APRIL 19. 



Thermometer, at noon, 54. ; at midnight, 50. 

 THE feventeenth incifion did, for the firft time, bleed. 

 OBS. 34. When the tree firft began to bleed, the dreaming of 

 the fap was confined to two, three or four hours, about the 

 middle of the day ; but as the heat of the feafon advanced, 

 and the tree became more replete with moifture, the running 

 of the fap commenced early in the morning, and continued 

 till very late in the evening. It is likewife to be noticed, that, 

 in the evening, the fap often continued to flow from in- 

 cifions in the branches, when thofe upon the trunk were 

 dried up ; and that it alfo run longer from inverted than 

 from upright branches. 



APRIL 20. 



Thermometer, at noon, 56. ; at midnight, 49. 

 THE eighteenth and nineteenth incifions bled to-day, for the 

 firft time. There was warm funfhine during the whole day. 



APRIL 21. 



Thermometer, at noon, 54. ; at midnight, 47. 

 THIS day the twentieth incifion bled. 



APRIL 22. 

 Thermometer, at noon, 52. ; at midnight, 45. 



THE twenty-firft incifion, which was made a few days before, 

 and which was the higheft that could be made on the tree, did 

 this day bleed for the firft time. It was twenty feet from the 

 ground. 



APRIL 24. 



Thermometer, at noon, 56. ; at midnight, 50. 

 THIS day the tree bled, in all its parts, at every incifion upon 

 the trunk, and at every twig cut at the extremities of the 



branches. 



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