The Condufiori. 
in Experiment the 3d, that tho’ the Vine 
imbibed and perfpired more than the Ever- 
green, yet it perfpired lefs than the Apple- 
tree, which delights in, and bears beft in a 
ftrong brick-earth clay 5 for tho’ the Vine 
bleeds moft freely in its feafon, produces 
many long fucculent fhoots, 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 16. is perfpired from 
the branches of trees, during the cold win- 
ter feafon, plainly fhewsthe reafon, why in 
a long feries of cold north- eafterly winds, 
the blofioms, and tender young fet fruit and 
leaves, are in the early fpring fo frequently 
blafted, viz. by having the moifture exhaled 
falter than it can be fupplied from the trees ; 
for doubtlefs that moifture rifes 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 thele cold dry- 
ing winds often faded and turned yellow 3 
which makes the Husbandman, on thefcoc- 
2 cafions* 
