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To apply it particularly to this : The ^^ ^j^^ 

 Gardener that does not know that if he ^^ ^°^^* 

 covers not the Foot of his new-planted Tree 

 very deep, in March^ or in the Extremity 

 of Winter, he endangers the Lofs of it bv 

 the piercing Winds, is doubtlefsnot very feli- 

 citous about the doing it, let his Commands 

 be what they will. And indeed, this is what 

 is not much confider'd or known amongft too 

 many, to the great Difadvantage of all new- 

 planted Plantations. And with this I fhall 

 conclude what I had to fay as to the Progrefs 

 of Roots in the Ground, and the Afcenfion 

 of Sap in the Growth, Procerity, and Ferti- 

 lity of Trees. 



What becomes of this Sap in the Winter, Concemv?^ 

 and how the Tree is difpos'd for its next J.JS' 

 Year's Work, (hall next be enquired into. into th^ 



It has been the common, and, without ^''^^'^' 

 doubt, the erroneous Opinion of the ancient, 

 as well as fome modern Philofophers, That at 

 the Termination of the Year, the Sap defcends 

 into the Roots, and there lies dormant all the 

 Winter, 'till the Heat of the Spring draws it 

 up again ^ while others maintain a Circula- 

 tion of Sap in Trees, as of the Blood in the 

 Bodies of Animals. 



Againft the firft, it has been obferv'd, That Vid,qixm- 

 taking; a Limb or Boueh in the depth of Win- ^j"^-"''^^.; 

 ter, at a time when one wou d tnmk the bap his Com- 

 was in its grand Repofe, and cutting off any p^^^ac Gar- 

 part of the Tree, commit it but to the Fire, "^'^^^^ 

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