3<58 The Conclufion. 



in Experiment 3. that the/ the Vine imbibed 

 and perfpired more than the Ever-green, yet 

 it perfpired lefs than the Apple-tree, which 

 delights in, and bears bed in a ftrong brick- 

 earth clay 5 for tho' the Vine bleeds moil 

 freely in its feafon, produces many long 

 fucculent (hoots, and bears great plenty of 

 a very juicy fruit, yet from that Experiment 

 it is plain, that it is not a great perfpirer, 

 and therefore thrives beft in a dry, rocky, or 

 gravelly foil. 



The confiderable quantity of moifture, 

 which by Experiment 16. is perfpired from 

 the branches of trees, during the cold winter 

 feafon, plainly {hews the reafon why, in a 

 long feries of cold North-eafterly winds, the 

 bloflbms, and tender young-fet fruit and 

 leaves, are in the early fpring fo frequently 

 blafted, viz. by having the moifture exhaled 

 fafter than it can be fupplied from the trees : 

 for doubtlefs that moifture rifes the flower 

 from the root, the colder the feafon is, tho' it 

 rifes in fome degree all the winter, as is evi- 

 dent from the fame Experiment. 



And from the fame caufe it is, that the 

 Jeafy fpires of Corn are, by thefe cold dry- 

 ing winds, often faded and turned yellow ; 

 which makes the Husbandman, on thefe oc- 



cafions, 



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