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Vegetable Staiicks. 



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weight. In April it (hot out 4 branches, 



two of which were 3 ■ feet long, 



two were one of them 14 inches, 



9 inches, in length: Thcfe ail 



fair large leaves, it had loft if 



weight, and in three weeks more it loft 



z\ ounces more, and was much withered. 



the other 



the other 

 produced 

 ounce in 



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5? 



Ilia 



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Experiment VI. 



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Spear-mint i?4pg a plant that thrives mod 

 kindly in water, (in order the more ac- 

 curately to obferve what water it would 

 imbibe, and perfpire by night and day, in 

 wet or dry weather) I cemented at r a plant 

 of it m, into the inverted fyphon r y x b 

 (Fig. 2.) the fyphon was % inch diam. at b, 

 but larger at r. 



I filled it full of water, the plant imbib- 

 ed the water fo as to make it fall in the 

 day, (in March) near an inch and half from 

 b to t, and in the night % inch from t to it 

 but one night, when it was fo cold, as to 

 make the Thermometer fink to the freezing 

 point , then the mint imbibed nothing, but 

 hung down its head 5 as did alio the young 

 beans in the garden, their fap being great- 



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