Vegetable Statkks. 1 1 5 
not much in the night, nor till after the Sun 
was up in the morning, at which time it 
rofe fafteft, 
I The frelher the cut of the Vine was, and 
f the warmer the weather , the more the lap 
would rife, and fubfide in a day, as 4 or (5 
^ feet. 
But if it were 5 or 6 days fince the Vine 
I was cut, it would rife or fubfide but little? 
5 the fap-veflels at the tranfverfe cut being 
i faturate and contrafted. 
But if I cut off a joint or two off the 
!j fteni, and new fixed the tube, the fap would 
[ then rife and fubfide vigoroufly. 
Moifture and warmth made the fap moft 
I vigorous. 
j If the beginning or middle of the bleed- 
ing feafon being very kindly, had made the 
i ! motion of the fap vigorous 5 that vigour 
I would immediately be greatly abated by 
^ cold eafterly winds. 
If in the morning, while the fap was in 
I a rifing ftate, there was a cold wind with a 
mixture of funfhine and cloud s when the 
Sun was clouded, the fap would immediate- 
ly vifibly fubfide, at the rate of an inch in 
a minute for feveral inches, if the Sun con- 
I 2 tinned 
