Vegetable Staticks. \ z i 



The Fines to which the tubes in this ex- 

 periment were fixed, were 20 feet high from 

 the roots to their top; and the glafs tubes 

 fixed at feveral heights b from the ground, 

 from 6 to 2 feet. 



The fap would rife in the tube the firft 

 day, according to the different vigour of the 

 bleeding ftate of the Vine, either i, 2, 5, 

 12, 15, or 25 feet; but when it had got 

 to its greateft height for that day, if it was 

 in the morning, it would conftantly begin 

 to fubfide towards noon. 



If the weather was very cool about the 

 middle of the day, it would fubfide only 

 from 11 or 12 to 2 in the afternoon; but 

 if it were very hot weather, the fap would 

 begin to fubfide at 9 or 10 o' clock, and 

 continue fubfiding tilL], 5, or 6 in the even- 

 ing, and from that rime it would continue 

 ftationary for an hour or two j after which 

 it would begin to rife a little, but not 

 much in the night, nor till after the fori 

 was up in the morning, at which time ic 

 rofe fatten;. 



The frefher the cut of the Vine was, and 

 the warmer the weather, the more the fap 

 would rife, and fubfide in a day, as 4 or 6 

 feet. 



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