





( 







124 Vegetable Stanch. 



pafiage of the fap, where the direft p a [r aoc 

 is feveral times intercepted. ° 



Experiment XLI. 



Auguft 13. At noon I took a large branch 

 of an Apple-tree, (Fig. 22.) and cemented 

 up the tranfverfe cut, at the great end x, and 

 tyed a wet bladder over it : I then cut off 

 the main top branch at b 5 where it was A 

 inch diameter, and fet it thus inverted into 

 the bottle of water b. 



In three days and two nights it imbibed 

 and perfpired 4 pounds + 2 ounces -]- -i- of 

 water, and the leaves continued green •■> the 

 leaves of a bough cut off the fame tree at 

 the fame time with this, and not fet in 

 water, had been withered 40 hours before. 

 This, as well as the great quantities imbibed 

 and perCpired, (hews, that the water was 

 cu-awn from h moft freely to e,f,g,h, and 

 from thence down their refpective branches, 



and fo perfpired off by the leaves. 



This Experiment may ferve to explain the 



rcafon, why the branch b, ( Fig. 23.) which 



grows out of the root c x } thrives very well, 



not\vith" : 



