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ji6 Vegetable Staticks. 



moft Shrubs will grow in an inverted ft atc 

 with their tops downwards in the earth. 



Experiment XLII. 



July 27th, I repeated Monfieur Terauh'$ 

 Experiment, viz. I took Duke Cherry, At. 

 pie and Curran-Boughs, with two branches 

 each, one of which a c (Fig. 2-5.) I immer- 

 fed in the large veiTcl of water e d, the 0- 

 ther branch hanging in the open air : I hun» 

 on a rail, at the fame time, other branches 

 of the fame forts, which were then cut off. 

 After three days, thofe on the rails were very 

 much withered and dead, but the branches 

 b were very green ; in 8 days the branch b 

 of the Duke-Cherry was much withered ; 

 but the Currans and Apple-branch b did not 

 fade till the eleventh day : Whence 'tis plain, 

 by the quantities that muft be perfpired in 

 eleven days , to keep the leaves b green fo 

 long, and by the wafte of the water, out of 

 the veiTel, that thefe boughs b muft have 

 drawn much water, from and thro' the 0- 

 ther boughs and leaves c, which were im- 



merfed in the vclTel of water. 



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