Vegetable Staticks. i£i 



When three tubes were fixed at the fame 

 time to Vines on an eaftern, a fouthern, and 

 a weftern afpedt, round my porch, the fap 

 would begin to rife in the morning firft in 

 the eaftern tube, next in the fouthern, and 

 laft in the weftern tube : And towards noon it 

 would accordingly begin to fubfide, firft in 

 the eaftern tube, next in the fouthern, and 

 laft in the weftern tube. 



Where two branches arofe from the 

 fame old weftern trunk, 15 inches from 

 the ground; and one of thefe branches 

 was fpread on a fouthern, and the other 

 on a weftern afpect ; and glafs tubes were 

 at the fame time fixed to each of them ; 

 the fap would in the morning, as the fun 

 came on, rife firft in the fouthern, then in 

 the weftern tube; and would begin to fub- 

 fide, firft in the fouthern, then in the weftern 

 tube. 



Rain and warmth, after cold and dry, 

 would make the fap rife all the next day, 

 without fubfiding, tho' it would rife then 

 flowed about noon; becaufe in this cafe 

 the quantity imbibed by the root, and 

 raifed from it, exceeded the quantity per- 

 fpired. 



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