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ftem could be any thing faturate with water, 

 or the fap-veffels fhrunk fo as to hinder its 

 paflage. 



Experiment XII. 



I cut off from a dwarf Apple-tree e w the 

 top of the branch /, (Fig. 6.) which was an 

 inch diameter, and fixed to the ftem/, the 

 glafs tube lb: then I poured water into the 

 tube, which the branch would imbibe, at 

 fuch a rate as to drink down 2 or 3 pints in 

 a day, efpecially if I fucked with my mouth 

 at the top of the tube b y fo as that a few air- 

 bubbles were drawn out of the ftem l-> then 

 the water was imbibed fo faft, that if I im- 

 mediately fcrewed on the mercurial gage, 

 mryz, the mercury would be drawn up 

 to r, 12 inches higher than in the other 

 leg. 



At another time I poured into the tube /, 

 fixed to a golded Renate-tree, a quart of 

 high redified fpirit of wine camphorated, 

 which quantity the ftem imbibed in 3 hours 

 fpacc ; this killed one half of the tree : this 

 I did to try if I could give a flavour of cam- 

 phire to the apples which were in great 



plenty 



