Vegetahle Staitcks. 133 



abounded with a greater plenty of frefh thin 

 fap. 



The fame is the reafon why Apples, 

 Pears, and many other fruits, which have 

 fome of their great fap veffels eaten afunder 

 by infefts bred in them, are ripe many days 

 before the reft of the fruit on the fame trees ; 

 As alfo that fruit, which is gathered fome 

 time before it is ripe, will ripen fooner than 

 if it had hung on the tree, tho' it will not 

 be fo good 5 becaufe in thefe cafes the worm- 

 eaten fruit is deprived of part of its nourifli- 

 mcnt, and the green gathered fruit of all. 



And for the fame reafon fome fruits are 

 fooner ripe towards the tops of the trees, 

 than the other fruit on the fame tree - 3 viz. 

 not only, becaufe they are more expofed to 

 the fun 5 but alfo, becaufe being at a greater 

 diftance from the root, they have fome- 

 what lefs nourifliment. 



And this is, doubtlefs, one reafon why 

 plants and fruits are forwarder in dry, fandy 

 or gravelly foils, than in moifter foils > viz. 

 not only, becaufe thofe foils are warmer 

 on account of their drynefs ; but alfo, be- 

 caufe lefs plenty of moifture is conveyed up 

 the plants 5 which plenty of moifture, tho* 

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