Vegetable Statkks. iop 



The greateft height to which they pufhed 

 the fap feverally was a 21 inches, b 26 inches, 

 c 26 inches. 



The mercury conftantly fubfided by the 

 retreat of the fap about 9 or 10 in the 

 morning, when the Sun grew hot 5 but in 

 a very moift foggy morning the fap was 

 later before it retreated, viz.-tift' noon, or 

 fome time after the fog was gone. 



About 4 or 5 a clock in the afternoon, 

 when the Sun went off the Vine, the fap 

 began to pufli afrefli into the gages, fo as 

 to make the mercury rife in the open legs 5 

 but it always rofe fafteft from Sun rife till 

 9 or 10 in the morning. 



The fap in b (the oldefl: ftem) plaid the 

 mod freely to and fro, and was therefore 

 foonefl: affe&ed with the changes from hot 

 to cool, or from wet to dry, and vice verfa. 



And April 10, toward the end of the bleed- 

 ing feafon , h began firft to fuck up the 

 mercury from 6 to 5, fo as to be 4 inches 

 higher in that leg than the other. But 

 April 24, after a night's rain, b pufhed the 

 mercury 4 inches up the other leg, a did not 

 begin to fuck till April 29, viz. 9 days after 

 b 1 c did not begin to fuck till May 3 . viz. 



13 days 



