lOl 
I'^egeiahle Siaticks. 
was It degrees above the freezing point, 
March 5 1 ft from (5 -J- i ^ to i o p. m, the fap 
role 8 % inches, ^pril ii\:xt 6 am, Thermo’' 
meter 5 degrees above the freezing point, , 
and a white hoar froft, the fap rofe from 
ten a clock laft night 3 -I- 4 inches more 5 
and fo continued rifing daily till it was a- 
bove 2 1 feet high, and w’ould very proba- *' 
bly have rifen higher, if the joynt b had not i 
feverai times leaked : After flopping of which | 
it would rife fometimes at the rate of an 
inch in 3 minutes, fo as to rife 10 feet or 
more in a day. In the chief bleeding feafon 
it would continue rifing night and day, but 
much more in the day than night, and mofl 
of all in the greateft heat of the day 5 and 
what little finking it had of 2 or 3 inches I 
was always after fun fet , which I fufpeft 
was principally occafioned by the flirink- 
ing and contraftion of the cement at by as 
it grew cool. 
\Vhen the fun fiiined hot upon the Vine, 
there was always a continued fcrics of air 
bubbles, conftantly afeending from the ftem 
thro* the fap in the tube, in fo great plenty 
as to make a large froth on the top of 
the fap, which fhews the great quantity of 
air 
