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Vegetable Statkks. 

 CHAP- I- 



Events, fiemg§ ^M«^ 

 and perfpired by Wants and Trees. 



Experiment I. 



T n L YjT7H. in order to find out the 

 J "uiry nrrbibcd and paired by re 

 Sun Fiower, I took fc garden-pot (F 4 

 With a large Smt-Fhver,: 1 feet +,M 

 which was purpofely planted rn it when 



'TSvered the pot **> a plate of thin 

 milled lead, and cemented all the joints faft, 

 ft as no vapor could pafs, but only an-, thro 

 a tmall tilto tube i nine inches long, which 

 was fixed purpoWy near ft* M * *J 

 plant, to make a free communication W h 

 fhe outward air, and that under the leaden 



Pl T"cementcd alfo another fhort glafs tube 

 I into the plate, two inches long and one 

 inch in diameter. Thro' this tube 1 watered 

 the plant, and then flopped it up with a cork, 

 1 flopped up alfo the holes i, I at the bottom 



of the pot with corks. 



1 weiv'hea 





