Vegetable Staticks. 105 ? 
The greateft height to which they puflied 
the fapfcverally was ^ 21 inches,^ 26 inches, 
r 26 inches. 
The mercury conftantly fubfided by the 
retreat of the fap about 9 or 10 in the 
morning, when the Sun grew hot; but in 
a very moift foggy morning the fap was 
later before it retreated, ^iz,. till noon, or 
fome time after the fog was gone. 
About 4 or 5 a clock in the afternoon, 
v/hen the Sun went off the Vine, the fap 
began to pufh afrefli into the gages, fo as 
to make the mercury rife in the open legs ^ 
but it always rofe fafteft from Sun rife till 
9 or 10 in the morning. 
The fap in b (the oldeft ftcm) plaid the 
moft freely to and fro, and was therefore 
fooneft affefted with the changes from hot 
to cool, or from wet to dry, and vice verfa. 
And April 10, toward the end of the bleed- 
ing feafon , b began firfl: to fuck up the 
mercury from 6 to 5, fo as to be 4 inches 
higher in that leg than the other. But 
April 24, after a night s rain, b puihed the 
mercury 4 inches up the other leg, a did not 
begin to fuck till April zg^viz,, 9 days after 
hi c did not begin to fuck tillilf^ 3 . ^iz. 
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