3 ($8 The Conclufton. 
tree, which delights in, and bears beft in a 
ftrong brick-earth clay ; for tho* the Vine 
bleeds moft freely in its feafon, produces, 
many long fucculent fnoots, and bears great 
plenty of a very juicy fruit, yet from that 
Experiment it is plain, that it is not a great 
perfpirer, and therefore thrives beft in a dry, 
rocky, or gravelly foil. 
The confiderable quantity of moifture, 
which by Experiment 1 6. is perfpired from 
the branches of trees, during the cold win- 
ter feafon, plainly fliews the reafon, why in 
a long feries of cold north-eafterly winds, 
the bloflbms, and tender young fet fruit and 
leaves, are in the early fpring fo frequently 
blaftcd, viz, by having the moifture exhaled 
fafter than it can be fupplied from the trees > 
for doubtlefs that moifture riles the flower 
from the root, the colder the feafon is, tho* 
it rifes in fome degree all the winter, as is 
evident from the fame Experiment. 
And from the fame caufe it is, that the 
leafy fpires of Corn are by thefe cold dry- 
ing winds often faded and turned yellow ; 
which makes the Husbandman, on thefe oc- 
cafions, wilh for fnow 5 which thoTt be very 
cold, yet it not only defends the root from 
being 
