[ 86 ] 



at their extremities above confequently had 

 no new channels to carry off the highly ra- 

 refied fap in the bodies : The leaves formed 

 from the buds of the former year, not yield- 

 ing a fufficient difcharge for it. 



Why heat without rain upward, will 

 not caufe the heads of Oaks to vegetate in 

 it's moft natural manner altho' the earth 

 and confequently their roots are never fo full 

 of moifture (as was the cafe then, there hav- 

 ing been great rains before) is not my bufi- 

 nefs here to afcertain. And it would be 

 but of little ufe, as it cannot be beforehand 

 prevented, to offer at reafons, why on fuch 

 occafions the fap has a readier power to form 

 even new buds in the bark of the body, and 

 thereupon to vent it's felf in lateral exertions 

 farther, than at the head of the Oak, where 

 there were buds ready formed to receive, 

 and aid it onward : It being my proper em- 

 ployment only in that particular cafe to take 

 them all off again, when they are formed. 



But it concerns the proprietor to be in- 

 formed, that he will find more fuch extra- 

 vafations in dry, hot fprings or fummers, 

 than in moift fultry ones. One reafon of 



which. 



