Vegetable Staticks. 
the third chapter, it was found, that the 
trunk and branches of Vines were always 
in an imbibing ftate, caufed by the great 
perfpiration of the leaves, except in the 
bleeding feafon ; but when at night that 
perfpiring power ceafes, then the contrary 
imbibing power will prevail and draw the 
fap and dew from the leaves, as well as 
moifture from the roots. 
And we have a further proof of this in 
Experiment 12, where by fixing mercurial 
gages -to the items of feveral trees, which 
do not bleed, it is found that they are al- 
ways in a ftrongly imbibing ftate, by draw- 
ing up the mercury feveral inches: whence 
it is eafy to conceive, how fome of the 
particles of the gilded Bud, in the inocu- 
lated Jefiamine, may be abforbed by it, 
and thereby communicate their gilding 
Miafma to the fap of other branches; efpe- 
cially when fome months after the inocu- 
lation, the flock of the inoculated Jefia- 
mine is cut off a little above the Bud 5 
whereby the flock, which was the counter 
a&ing part to the ftem, being taken away, 
the ftem attra&s more vigoroufly from the 
Bud. 1 
Another 
