itt J/egetable St Micks . 
But if it were 5 or 6 days fince the Vine 
was cut, it would rife or fubfide but little ; 
the fap-veffels at the tranfverfe cut being 
faturate and con traded. 
But if I cut off a joint or two off the 
ftem, and new fixed the tube, the fap would 
then rife and fubfide vigoroufly. 
Moifture and warmth made the fap moft 
vigorous. 
If the beginning or middle of the bleed* 
ing feafon, being very kindly, had made the 
motion of the fap vigorous, that vigour 
would immediately be greatly abated by 
cold eafterly winds. 
If in the morning, while the fap is in a 
rifing Bate, there was a cold wind with a 
mixture of fun-lhine and cloud 5 when the 
Sun was clouded, the fip would immedi* 
ately vifibly fubfide, at the rate of an inch in 
a minute for feveral inches j if the Sun con- 
tinued fo long clouded : But as foon as the 
Sun-beams broke out again, the fap would 
immediately return to its then rifing ftate, 
juft as any liquor in a Thermometer rifes and 
falls with the alternacies of heat and cold 5 
whence 'tis probable, that the plentiful rife 
of the fap in the Vine in the bleeding fea* 
fon, is effefted in the fame manner. 
When 
