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into leaf than its supporters, but I know not 

 that any other difference was to be perceived 

 between them. The tree which wanted the 

 support of the ground was, some years after, 

 blown down, so that we have now no oppor- 

 tunity of examining the course of its vessels, 

 or the mode in which successive layers of 

 wood were deposited in its branches ; but the 

 experiment is easily repeated. 



In the weeping variety of the Common Ash. 

 now so frequent in gardens, the branches are 

 completely inverted as to position, } r et the 

 returning fluids appear to run exactly in their 

 natural direction, depositing new wood, as 

 they are situated above the buds or leaves ; 

 and if the end of any branch be cut, all be- 

 yond (or below) the next bud dies ; so that in 

 this case gravitation, to which Mr. Knight 

 attributes considerable pow r er over the return- 

 ing fluids, Phil Trans, for 1804, does not 

 counteract the ordinary course of nature. 



