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This experiment may fafely be repeated 

 with well-fcented and perfumed common 

 water, which trees will imbibe at // with- 

 out any danger of killing them. 



Experiment XIII. 



In order to try whether the capillary fap- 

 veffels had any power to protrude fap out at 

 their extremities, and in what quantity, I made 

 the three following experiments, viz. 



In Anguji I took a cylinder of an apple- 

 branch, 12 inches long, \ diameter: I fet it 

 with its great end downwards in a mint glafs, 

 (full of water) tied over with ox-gut. The 

 top of the flick was moift for ten days, while 

 another flick of the fame branch (but out 

 of water) was very dry. It evaporated an 

 ounce of water in thofe ten days. 



Experiment XIV. 



In Sept. I fix'd a tube / (Fig. 7.) 7 feet 

 ong, to a like flemy^ as the former, and 

 fet the flem in water „v, to try if, as the wa- 

 ter evaporated out of the top of the flem r, 

 it would rife to any height in the tube t\ but 



it 



