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abounded with a greater plenty of freflithin 
fap. 
The fame is the reafon why Apples, 
Pears, and many other fruits, which have 
fome of their great fap veflels eaten afunder 
by infeds bred in them, are ripe many days 
before the reft of the fruit on the fame trees ; 
As alfo that fruit, which is gathered fome 
time before it is ripe, will ripen fooner than 
if it had hung on the tree, tho’ it will not 
be fo good 5 becaufe in thefe cafes the worm- 
eaten fruit is deprived of part of its nourifh- 
ment, and the green gathered fruit of all. 
And for the fame reafon fome fruits arc 
fooner ripe towards the tops of the trees, 
than the other fruit on the fame tree ^ viz. 
not only, becaufe they are more expofed to 
the fun 5 but alfo, becaufe being at a greater 
diftance from the root, they have fome- 
what lefs nouriftiment. 
And this is, doubtlefs, one reafon why 
plants and fruits are forwarder in dry, fandy 
or gravelly foils, than in moifter foils; viz. 
not only, becaufe thofe foils are warmer 
on account of their drynefs 5 but alfo, be- 
caufe lefs plenty of moifture is conveyed up 
the plants 5 which plenty of moifture, tho' 
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