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riftiment to the fruit. And accordingly I 

 obferve, that the leaves, next adjoining to 

 bloflbms, are, in the fpring, very much ex- 

 panded, when the other leaves, on barren 

 fhoots, are but beginning to {hoot : And 

 that all peach leaves are pretty large before 

 the bloflbm goes off: And that in apples 

 and pears the leaves are one third or half 

 grown before the bloflbm blows : So 

 provident is nature in making timely pro- 

 vifion for the nourishing the yet embryo 

 fruit. 



Experiment IX. 



July 15. I cut off two thriving Hop-vines 

 near the ground, in a thick fhady part of 

 the garden, the pole ftill {landing; I {trip- 

 ped the leaves off one of thefe vines, and fet 

 both their ftems in known quantities of 

 water, in little bottles 5 that with leaves 

 imbibed in 12 hours day 4 ounces, and that 

 without leaves \ of an ounce. 



I took another hop-pole with its vines 

 on it, and carried it out of the hop-ground, 

 into a free open expofure ; thefe imbibed 

 and perfpired as much more as the former 



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