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N". 5« Of the mamkr of growth by Circumpofiion , and 

 whether thence an argument may be made for the de- 

 fcentlon of S-ap. 



Concerning the manner of growth by Circumpo- 

 mion 1 fhall only make this remark , whereas it is 

 f uppofed by ibme , that the roots are made above the 

 disbarked place , by the defcention of the Tap ,^ hicn 

 is fuppofed to be at the tall or the leaf , 1 have found 

 experience very confcradhftory to their fuppofalls; for 

 the leaves fall nor till after Michaelmaffe; and nature 

 proceeds to the germination, and encreafe of roots 

 Crpm the fpring all the iummer long, fo that nothing 

 can be argued rightly from this operation, or from the 

 effect and product of nature thereupon for that o- 

 pinion , which makes the fop to be every winter re- 

 poled in the roote , as in a large receptacle, and of its 

 defceritiori thither after every A utumne. If it were 

 there as in a repbiuory , it were a bonder that roots 

 fhould be drier in Decemb. then in May , or jfW ,and 

 fenhbly more devoid of juice. And it it did defcend 

 after Autumne , how could it afcend at the fame 

 time ? Thar it doth then afcend is plain fiom this 

 experiment ; Take up a tree , 6r other vegetable, in 

 the foil of the lenfe ; the leaves will wither , and the 

 bark begin in a little time to wrinklejtheii let it again 

 in a proper foile ,well waxered; the efTe^ will be that 

 the leaves will recover frefhneffe, and the bark a ax 

 plump and the body frime , and full as before , which 

 could not be but by a frefh f upply of afceftdfpg fop, 

 which might fill up the pores made by the whither , 

 and exhalation of the funne.I am contented tobeleive 

 that the fop is in winter v> here I fee it to be, (v?r)dn 

 the body of trie tree coagulated,or crurted into a new 

 coate , encompafling the whole, which was not extant 



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