21 Vegetable Stathks. 



we may obferve, that the Limon-tree, which 

 is an ever-green, perfpires much lefs than the 

 Sun-flower, or than the Vine or the Apple- 

 tree, whofe leaves fall off in the winter; 

 and as they perfpire lefs, fo are they the 

 better able to furvive the winter's cold, 

 becaufe they want proportionably but a very 

 fmall fupply of fre(h nourifhment to fup- 

 port them j like the exangueous tribe of 

 animals, frogs, toads, tortoifes, ferpents, 

 infects, &c. which as they perfpire little, 

 fo do they live the whole winter without 

 food. And this I find hold true in 12 

 other different forts of ever-greens, on which 

 I have made Experiments. 



The above- mention'd Mr. Miller made 

 the like Experiments in the Botanick-gar- 

 den at Chelfca^ on a Plantain- tree, an Aloe, 

 and a Paradife Apple-tree 5 which he weigh- 

 ed morning, noon, and night, for feveral 

 fucceiiive days. I (hall here infert the di- 

 aries of them, as he communicated them to 

 me, that the influence of the different tem- 

 peratures of the air, on the perfpiration of 

 thefe plants, may the better be feen. 



The pots which he made ufe of were 

 glazed, and had no holes in their bottoms as 



garden 



