Vegetable Statick 



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not much in the night, nor till after the Sun 

 was up in the morning, at which time it 

 rofe fafteft. 



The frefher the cut of the Vine was, and 

 the warmer the weather , the more the fap 

 would rife, and fubfide in a day, as 4 or 6 

 feet. 



But if it were 5 or 6 days fince the Vine 

 was cut, it would rife or fubfide but little; 

 the fap-veffels at the tranfvtrfe cut being 

 faturate and contra&ed. 



But if I cut off a joint or two off the 

 ftem, and new fixed the tube, the fap would 

 then rife and fubfide vigoroufly. 



Moifture and warmth made the fap molt 

 vigorous. 



If the beginning or middle of the bleed- 

 ing feafon being very kindly, had made the 

 motion of the fap vigorous ; that vigour 

 would immediately be greatly abated by 

 cold eafterly winds. 



If in the morning, while the fap was in 

 a rifing ftate, there was a cold wind with a 

 mixture of funfhine and cloud j when the 

 Sun was clouded, the fap would immediate- 

 ly vifibly fubfide, at the rate of an inch in 

 a minute for feveral inches, if the Sun con- 

 I z tinued 



