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ferimenpyiLNl. Fbll.p. 147. we may add chat 
of the imbibing Power of the Shoots of Fig- 
trees : For if the unripe latter Fruit continue 
on the Trees all the Winter, they will frequent- 
ly kill the Shoot they adhere to, as is plain by 
the Mortifications beginning at the Stem of the 
Fig, and thence fpreading thro' the whole Shoot, 
whereas other Shoots which had no Figs on 
them, have at the fame time furvived, as I 
have found by repeated Tryals on Fig-trees 
which ftand expofed without the Shelter of a 
Wall : For which reafon it is advifeable to 
pull off the latter Crop Figs before the Winter 
comes on, which will be a means to preferve 
the Shoots in our ordinary Winter; but in very 
fevere Winters, fuch as that in the Year 1728, 
all the bearing Shoots will be killed, iinlefs 
flickered in a warm Situation. Now it can- 
not be fuppofed that this Mortification was oc- 
cafioned by a Circulation of the Sap between 
the bearing Shoot and the dead putrid Fig ; 
but fliould rather feem to be effefted by the 
Shoots imbibing noxious Matter from the Fig. 
I have obferved the like Effeft from dry rotten 
Qtiinces which have hung on the Tree all the 
Winter. And it is doubtlefs in the fame man- 
ner that a Canker (preads its Infeftion ; the 
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