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Show SA » defcends by the Bark: yispete well aft moiften’d very powerful one, as may be feen by thefe Experiments, and particularly But iri periment tr. and where that P ven of Moifture Nowthe be very great, ifthat re muft moft of it afcer 1c ‘Tree, then defcend a before it is carry’d off by Per- Sap from the Graft, as w llaas the be equi valent to tl iat Provifi the Afcent Ps t Trees, it is evident that thofe Stems were in a ftrongly imbibing State; and confequently the cankered Stocks migrit very likely draw m adefor in confi sient ofthe nately from the Stock; juft in the € manner as Leaves and Brane hes do from each other in the Viciffitudes of Day and Night, Perfpi Inftances of the Sellamine-tree, and of Paffion-tree, have been lopk’d upon as } Proofs of the Circulation of the , And this imbibing Power of the Stockis fo great, where only fomeof the Branches ofthe { a 7He, t Proofs in fible thofe Gr. afte offor which Reafon, it is ufual to cut off the greateft Part of the Branches of the Stock, leavin g only a few fmall ones to draw up the Sap Tree iquor, which The Inftance of the Mex Apewhereby great Reafon to think, Trees has han Al greffive Motion, occafion 4 by the Alternaci g, the preadytare. t, will c and Branches of the Ve eetabl been much exhaufted bythe © 1ereby the Sz f thetalleft ‘I recs, Leaves: Bue s aves, greatly dimithen alfo the of the Day, may, at N And tOy otther y plentiful Pe { reby making Room for fels to exert th and Br. inches periments on the Vine fi that the Tru bibing State, caus’d é ofthe Leaves, exccept in thebleedi ng ht that per{pir g 2 y imbibing Power wiill prevail, rations of and draw the Sap and Dew from the Leaves as m to be deicend ulated, it mu well as Moifture oh m the Roots Andwe have afurther Proof of thisin Experiment 12, w fixing Mercurial Gages to ich donot bleed, g fro m the Inches Breadth quite round, the low the bleeding Place, then the Szp which is t = Bark and the Wood below that Place is depriv’d of the ftrong atower of the Leaves, €%c. and confe- Was takenoff, that great {6that it muft needs have been feen defcendé 1¢ Return of t ap downwards were ration or Pulfion, iwheteby the Blood in imals is return’d througt 1the Veins to the Heart, and that Pr n, if there were any, muft neceflaily be e ed with pt digious Force, to be able to drive the Sap thro’ the finer C Return of the Sap downAttraétion, and that a noculate a andHither to the 5 fome Mo oss “flee wt 1€ hae J of the inoculated Feffamine is cut ‘off above the Bud, hereby the Stock, wh was the counter-acting Part to the Stem, be taken aw ay, the from the Bud. Stemattraéts more vigoroufly But the moft confiderable Objection againft this prog refiive Motion of the r the Stocks they g periment 12 and 37, where M were fix’d to frefh cut Ste getables ; notwithftanding rfons have been induc’d to from feveral curious Obferva- which evidently prove, It is a Plant of the verticilla labiated Flower, whofe U pper-lip. dividedinto tw6. Parts ; but the Lowey Beard, is divided into three Parts, the Part being crenated ;: Lhefe Flowers are pro- duced from the Wings ofthe Leaves, in a loofé whenthe ‘Plants are come up, they muft . tranfplanted into other Beds, placing the about four or five Inches afaunder each Way ; obferving to do this in moift, cloudy W eather, becaufe at oe Times the Plants will foon take Root ; but if the Seafon fhould prove hot and dry, they muft be diligently watered until they have taken Root, after which they ap without a will require no farther Care, but to keep ’em Circyulation, arifes from hence, viz. That ’tis clear from Weeds and iA Fuly tthey will too precipitate a Courfe for a due Digeftion of flower, at which Time they fhould be cut for the Szp in Order to Nutrition: W hereas in Animals, Nature haas provided that many Parts of the Blood fhall run a long Courfe before they are either-apply’d to Nutrition, or difeed from the Animal. Another Argument for the C the Szp is, that fome Sorts of G fee and ca ae 2 many ingenio Bleeding of the ‘Tree above that bared Place Order, and not in Wborles or Spikes, as are will much abate ; which ought to haye the moft of this Tribe of Plants. Effeét, by pei the Courfe of The Species are ; ended by the 1. Saturrya, fativa. FB. Garden or Summer Savory. But the Reafon of the Abatement of the 2. SATUREJA 5 mon C.B.P. Winter Bleeding in this fe may well be accounted Savory. for, from the marnifeft Proof we have in thefe 3. Satureya; Vi Par. Bat. Vir Experiments, that the .Szp is ftrongly attraéted ginian Savory. up ards by the vigorou Operation ofthe perThe firft of thefe Plants is annual, andis fpiring Leaves and attraé ing Capillaries : Bue propagated by fowing of the Seeds, upon a whenthe Barkis cut off forfome Breadth beBed of light, freth Earth, in Mareb; and bleediae Wound cannot be fup- Quantities of Water pat ed through the Stem, RR Circulation {uppofe, feems evident from hence, viz. That if the Bark be taken offfor three pl yd io fat with Sap as it was before the Bark jumns of Water Gl afs r ubes, So that if there be a rds, it muft be That the Sap does not defcend between the Bark and the Wood, as the Favourers of a or four ter of the af Plants were foundto incr Weight in dewy thethird C apter SZp is nbibe Sap and Dewfrom the Le ave For by ro other thirteen Days‘longer 4 the Body lich have ivaporation he thinks we have, from nd Obfervations, fufficient that there is no Gi reulation culation of the ‘Sap 5 ininials may A\PONARIA; wide Lychnis. be drawn from Mr, Hales ss 347th Experiment, iz. where it was found by the three MercuSATUREJA, [fo call’d, becaufe it is faid rial G fix’d to the fame Vine, that while to caufe a Sat or P spifinus, for it fome of its Branches chang’d their State of very much excites to Venery, and carries a protruding Sap into a State ofimbibiing, others Warmth to the Mem continu’d protrudi ng Sap, one nine, and the The Charaéfers are ; ke up lefs Roo>m than they Dewand Rain will by the Leave 5, as is pro ‘O ment 42, and feveral others, whereby all whofe Com- circulated. Forthe S2p in all Vegetables does probably recede, in fome meafure, from the Lops of B a8 s them, becauteits 1 fets the the Structure of Vegetables ; againftLaa Ci culati on : For if that the Szp does, in fome meafu re, recede from the Top towards the lower Parts of andy ‘ee fhould the Plants, whence they were, with good Probaae Oakfall in Winter, and not bility of Reafon, induc’d to thinkth at the Sa and Dry. €5 it continually which pofition is made up of nothing elfe but innumerablefine capill ary Veflelsand gland ulous _ feems to afford a very confider- ie taeis that Sap of all other 1 Receding and pro- of Day and Night, Warm and Cool, Moift only that grafted upon the Particles, were hitherto ‘kept disjon’d bythe Moti on oftheir fluid Vehicle ; we thall ‘find that Nature has made an abundant Provifion for this Work in Portions or Velicles, Stock will, or their ftrong Attrad ion; ftarve their Branches, wh were far below th in oculated Bud, were gilded: But we 35 tOhes {upply’d Graft alter- her different Purpofes, the feyer al mutually attracting nutritious d ae Animal2) is chiefly cars tyd on in the fine vapillary Veffels, where {cleéts and combines,as fhall beft fait medicinal Ufe ; but thofe Plants which are left will produce ripe Seeds in Sep er, provided the.Autumn be favourable. The Winter vory is an abiding Plant, and may be propagated by Slips or Cuttings, which, if planted in a Bed of Jight, frefh Earth, in the Spring, and carefully we ered, will take Root ina fhort ‘Time, and may then be tranfplanted where they are to remain This Plant fhould have a dry Soil, in which it will endure the Cold very well, as may be geen |