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whereby the body and branches of the ve- 

 getable which have been much exhaufted by 

 the great evaporation of the day, may at 

 night imbibe fap and dew from the leaves; 

 for by feveral Experiments in the firfl: chap- 

 ter, plants were found to increafe consider- 

 ably in weight, in dewy and moift nights. 

 And by other Experiments on the Vine in 

 the third chapter , it was found, that the 

 trunk and branches of Vines wese always 

 in an imbibing ftate, caufed by the great per- 

 foration of the leaves, except in the bleed- 

 ing feafon -> but when at night that perfpir- 

 ing power ceafes, then the contrary imbib- 

 ing power will prevail and draw the fap 

 and dew from the leaves, as well asmoifture 

 from the roots. 



And we have a further proof of this in 

 Experiment 12, where by fixing mercurial 

 gages to the ftems of feveral trees, which 

 do not bleed, it is found, that they are al- 

 ways in a ftrongly imbibing ftate, by draw- 

 ing up the mercury feveral inches : Whence 

 it is eafie to conceive, how fame of the par- 

 ticles of the gilded Bud, in the inoculated 

 Jeffamine, may be ablbrbed by it, and there- 

 by communicate their gilding Miafma to the 



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