

Vegetable Statkks. 4y 



they were grafted on fell off. Sec the cu- 

 rious and induftrious Mr. Fairchild's account 

 of thefe graftings in Mr. Miller's, Gardu 

 ner's Dictionary. Vol. II. Supplement fap. 



Experiment XVII. 



Having by many evident proofs in the 

 foregoing experiments fecn the great quan- 

 tities of liquor that were imbibed and per- 

 fpired by trees, I was defirous to try if I could 

 get any of this pcrfpiring matter; and in. 

 order to it ; I took feveral glafs chymical 

 retorts, bap (Fig. 9.) and put the boughs 

 of feveral forts of trees, as they were grow- 

 ing with their leaves on, into the retorts , 

 Hoping up the mouth p of the retorts with 

 bladder. By this means I got feveral ounces 

 of the pcrfpiring matter of Vines, Fig-trees, 

 Apple-trees,Cherry-trees, Apricot and Peach- 

 trees i Rue, Horfe-radilh, Rheubarb, Parfnip, 

 and Cabbage leaves : the liquor of all of 

 them was very clear, nor could I difcovec 

 any different tafte in the feveral liquors : 

 But if the retort Hand expoied to the hot 

 iun, the liquor will tafte of the coddled 

 leaves, Its fpecifick gravity, was nearly the 



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