ioi Vegetable Staticks. 



was ii degrees above the freezing point, 

 March 3 1 ft from 6 -]-- £ & m, to 1 oj£>. ^;. the fap 

 role 8-4-4 inches, April 1 ft at 6 a m. Thermo- 

 meter 3 degrees above the freezing point, 

 and a white hoar froft, the fap rofe from 

 ten a clock laft night 3 -J- % inches more % 

 and fo continued riftng daily till it was a- 

 bove 21 feet high, and would very proba- 

 bly have rifen higher, if the joynt h had not 

 feveral times leaked : After flopping of which 

 it would rife fometimes at the rate of an 

 inch in 3 minutes, fo as to rife 10 feet or 

 more in a day. In the chief bleeding feafon 

 it would continue rifing night and day, but 

 much more in the day than night, and moft 

 of all in the greatefl heat of ihe day 5 and 

 what little finking it had of 2 or 3 inches 

 was always after fun fet , which I fufpeft 

 was principally occafioned by the fhrink- 

 ing and contraction of the cement at b, as 

 it grew cool. 



When the fun fhined hot upon the Vine, 

 there was always a continued feries of air 

 bubbles, cenftantly afcending from the ftem 

 thro* the fap in the tube , in fo great plenty 

 as to make a large froth on the top of 

 the fap, which mews the great quantity of 



