1 1 6 Vegetable Statkks. 



tinued fo long clouded : But as foon as the 

 Sun- beams broke out again, the fap would 

 immediately return to its then rifing ftate,, 

 juft as any liquor in a Thermometer rifes 

 and falls with the alternacies of heat and 

 cold ; whence 'tis probable, that the plen- 

 tiful rife of the fap in the Vine in the bleed- 

 ing feafon is effected in the fame manner. 



When three Tubes were fixed at the 

 fame time to Vines on an eaftern, a fouth- 

 ern, and a weftern Afpect, round my porch ; 

 the fap would begin to rife in the morn- 

 ing, firfl in the eaftern-tube, next in the 

 fouthern, and laft in the weftern-tube : And 

 towards noon it would accordingly begin 

 to fubfide, firft in the eaftern-tube, next in the 

 fouthern, and laft in the weftern-tube. 



Where two branches arofe from the fame 

 old weftern trunk, 15 inches from the 

 ground 5 and one of thefe branches was 

 fpread on a fouthern, and the other on a 

 weftern Afpect; and glafs-tubes were at the 

 fame time fixed to each of them 5 the fap 

 would in the morning, as the Sun came on, 

 rife firft in the fouthern, then in the weftern- 

 tube ; and would begin to fubfide, firft in the 

 fouthern, then in the weftern-tube. 



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