Vegetable Staticks. 101 



Experiment XXXL 



I tried alfo the imbibing force of a great 

 variety of trees, by fixing Aqueo-mercurial 

 gages to branches of them cut off, as in Ex- 

 periment 22. 



The Pear, Quince, Cherry, Walnut, Peach, 

 Apricot, Plum, Black-thorn, White-thorn, 

 Goofeberry, Water-elder, Sycamore, raifed 

 the mercury from 6 to 3 inches high : Thofe 

 which imbibed water moll: freely, in the Ex- 

 periments of the firft chapter, raifed the 

 mercury higheft in thefe Experiments, ex- 

 cept the Horfe-Chefnut, which, though it 

 imbibed water moft freely, yet raifed the 

 mercury but one inch, becaufe the air paf- 

 fed very fait through its fap-veffels into the 

 gage. 



The following raifed the mercury but 1 

 or 2 inches, viz. the Elm, Oak, Horfe- 

 Chefnut, Filberd, Fig, Mulberry, Willow, 

 Sallow, Ofier, Afh, Lynden, Currans. 



The Ever-greens, and following trees and 

 plants, did not raife it at all ; the Laurel, 

 Rofemary, Lauruftinus, Phyllyrea, Fuz, Rue, 

 Berberry, JelTamine, Cucumber-branch, Pum- 

 kin, Jerufalem Artichoke. 



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