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the third chapter, it wa§ found, that the 

 trunk and branches of Vines were always 

 in an imbibing ftate, caufed by the great 

 perfpiration of the leaves, except in the 

 bleeding feafon 5 but when at night that 

 perfpiring power ceafes, then the contrary 

 imbibing power will prevail, and draw the 

 fap and dew from the leaves, as well as 

 moifture from the roots. 



And we have a farther proof of this in 

 Experiment 12, where, by fixing mercurial 

 gages to the ftems of feveral trees, which 

 do not bleed, it is found that they are al- 

 ways in a flrongly imbibing ftate, by draw- 

 ing up the mercury feveral inches: whence 

 it is eafy to conceive, how fome of the 

 "particles of the gilded Bud, in the inocu- 

 lated Jeflamine, may be abforbed by it 

 and thereby communicate their gilding 

 Miafma to the fap of other branches; efpe- 

 cially when fome months after the inocu 

 lation, the flock of the inoculated JefTa 

 mine is cut off a little above the Bud 

 whereby the flock, which was the counter 

 acting part to the flem, being taken away 

 the flem attracts more vigoroufly from th 

 Bud. 



Anothe 





