STATICAL ESSAYS: 



CONTAINING 



VEGETABLE STATICKS; 



Or, an Account of feme 



Statical Experiments 



O N T H E 



SAP in VEGETABLES. 



BEING 



An Essay towards a Natural Hiftory of 

 Vegetation: Of Ufe to thofe who 

 are curious in the Culture and Improve- 

 ment of Gardening, &c. 



ALSO 



A Specimen of an Attempt to Analyfe the Air, 

 by a great Variety of Chymio-Statical 

 Experiments, which were read at fevei*al 

 Meetings before the Royal Society. 



VOL. I. 



Quid eft in his, in quo non natura ratio intelligent is appareat f Tul. de Nat. Deor. 

 ——Etenim Experimentorum longe major eft fubtilitas y quam fen jus ipfius 



ltd que eo rem deducimus, utfenfus tantum de Experiment o t Experimentum 



de re judicet. Fran, de Verul. Inftauratio magna. 



By STEPH. HALES, D. D. F. R. S. 



Rector of Faringdon, Ha?npJJAre, and Minifter 

 of Teddwgton, Middle/ex. 



The Third Edition, with Amendments. 



LONDON: 

 Printed for W. Inn y s and R. Manb y, at the Weft-End of 

 St. Paul's; T.Woodward, at the Half-Moon ovcr-ag i 

 St. Dwiflan's Church in Fleet-flrcet ; and J. Pe f. l e, at locks' s 

 Head in Amm-Corner. M.dcc. xxxviii. 



