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Further, the experiment shews that the common opinion 

 respecting the commencement of spring vegetation,— the rise 

 of the sap from the roots, through the trunk and branches 

 to the twigs,— is groundless ; since a scion of an early variety, 

 on a late stock, will be in leaf while the stock is torpid. 



Resolved, — (on the recommendation of Council,) " that 

 the sum of £200 be placed at the disposal of the Committee 

 of Antiquities, to employ such portion of it as they may deem 

 necessary in increasing the present collection of Irish Anti- 

 quities in the possession of the Academy." 



