1% Vegetable Staticks. 



ly condenfed by cold. la a rainy day the 

 mint imbibed very little. 



I purfued this Experiment no farther, Dr. 

 Woodward having long fince, from feveral 

 curious experiments and obfervations, given 

 an account in the Philofophical Tranfadtions, 

 of the plentiful perfpirations of this plant. 



Experiment VII. 



In Augufl) I dug up a large dwarf Pear- 

 tree, which weighed 71 pounds 8 ounces; 

 I fet its root in a known quantity of wa- 

 ter ; it imbibed 15 pounds of water in ten 

 hours day, and perfpired at the fame time 

 1 k, pounds 8 ounces. 



In July and Augujl I cut off feveral 

 branches of Apple-trees, Pear, Cherry, and 

 Apricot-trees, two of a fort ; they were of 

 feveral fizes from 3 to 6 feet long, with pro- 

 portional lateral branches ; and the tranfverfe 

 cut of the largeft part of their ftems was 

 about an inch diameter. 



I dripped the leaves off of one bough of 

 each fort, and then fet their ftems in fepa- 

 rate glaffes, pouring in known quantities of 



water. 



The 



