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draw much nourifhment thro’ £ and there- 
by make it grow; and I believe, if, vice 
verfa, there were a leaf bearing Bud at z, 
and none at x, that then the fplinter z 
would grow more than x . 
The reafon of my conjecture, I ground 
upon this Experiment, viz. I chofe two 
thriving (hoots of a dwarf Tear-tree 1 1 a a. 
Fig. 28, 29. At three quarters of an inch 
diftance I took half an inch breadth of bark 
off each of them, in feveral places, viz . 
2, 4, < 5 , 8, and at 10, 12, 14. every one of 
the remaining ringlets of bark had a leaf 
bearing bud, which produced leaves the 
following fummer, except the ringlet 13, 
which had no fuch Bud. The ringlet 9 
and 11 of a a grew and fwelled at their 
bottoms, till Augufiy but the ringlet 1 3 did 
not increafe at all, and in Augufi the whole 
(hoot a a withered and died ; but the (hoot 
/ / lives and thrives well, each of its ringlets 
fwelling much at the bottom : Which fw el- 
lings at their bottoms muft be attributed 
to forge other caufe than the ftoppage of 
I tjie lap in its return downwards, becaufe in 
! the (hoot / /, its return downwards is in- 
tercepted three feveral times by cutting a^ 
way the bark at 2, 4> The larger and 
L 3 more 
