j/egetahle Staticks, 
the fruit joins to the tree) is to bring non-’ 
rifhment to the fruit. And accordingly I 
obferve that the leaves, next adjoining to 
blolfoms, are, in the fpring, very much ex- 
panded, when the other leaves, on barren 
Ihoots, are bur beginning to (hoot : And 
that all peach leaves are pretty large before 
the bloffom goes olF : And that in apples 
and pears the leaves are one third or half 
grown, before the blolTom blows : So pro- 
vident is nature in making timely provifioii 
for the nourilhing the yet embrio fruit. 
Experiment IX. 
Jufy 15. I cut off two thriving 
near the ground, in a thick lhady part of 
the garden, the pole ftill Handing; I ftrip- 
cd the leaves off one of thele vines, and fet 
both their Hems, in known quantities of 
water, in little bottles ; that with leaves 
imbibed in 1 2 hours day 4 ounces, and that 
without leaves i ounce. 
I took another hop pole with its vines 
on it, and carried it out of the hop ground, 
into a free open expofure ; thefe imbibed 
and peripired as much more as the former 
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