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Vegetable Stanch. 17 



Which yet mult be done with caution, 



for the skilful and ingenious Mr. Thihp 



Miller, Gardiner of the Botanick garden at 



Cbelfea, in his very ufeful Gardiners and 



Plorifts Dictionary, fays," That he has often 



" feen trees, that have had too much water 



" given them after planting, which has rotted 



" all the young fibres, as faft as they have 



" been pufhed out 5 and fo many times has 



" killed the tree. " Supplement Vol. II. of 



'^planting. And I obfervcd, that the dwarf 



«W pear-tree, whofe root was fet in water, in 



ifc( Exper. 7. decreafed very much daily in the 



quantity imbibed ; viz. becaufe the fap vef- 



K,U fels of the roots, like thofe of the cut off 



: : boughs, in the fame experiment , were fo 



l^ ; faturated and clogged with moifture, by ftand- 



s.x in S in water, that more of it could not be 



Ii3 drawn up to fupport the leaves, 



Hi 



Experiment III. 



■ 



From July 28. to Aug. 25. I weighed for 



^'twelve feveral mornings and evenings, a 



• thriving Vine growing in a pot j I was fur- 



niihed, with this and other trees, from his 



Majefty's garden at Hampton- court, by the 



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