1 3 4 Vegetable Statkks. 



h promotes their growth, yet retards their 

 coming to maturity. And for the fame 

 reafon, the uncovering the roots of trees 

 for feme time, will make the fruit be conli- 

 deraliy the forwarder. 



And on the other hand, where trees a- 

 bound with too great a plenty of frefh drawn 

 fap, as is the cafe of trees whofe roots are 

 planted too deep in coid moift earth , as 

 alfo of too luxuriant Peach and other 

 Wall trees 5 or which comes almoft to the 

 fame, where the fap cannot be perfpired off 

 in a due proportion 5 as in Orchards, where 

 trees fraud too near each other, fo as to hin- 

 der perfpiration, whereby the fap is kept in 

 too thin and crude a itate -, in all thefe cafes 

 little or no fruit is produced. 



Hence alio in moderately dry fummers, 

 ceteris paribus, there is ufuaiiy greater: plenty 

 cf fruit $ becaufe the fap in the bearing 

 twigs and buds is more digefted, and brought 

 to a better confidence, for (hooting out with 

 vigour and firmnefs, than it is in cool moift 

 fummers : And this obfervaticn has been 

 verified in the years 1723, 1724, and 1725, 

 See an account of them under it. Exp. 20. 



But 



