M4 Vegetable Statlcks. 



the leaves continued green for feveral 

 weeks, and imbibed conficterable quantities 



of water. 



This {hews how very probable it is, that 

 rain and dew is imbibed by vegetables, efpe- 

 cially in dry fealbns. 



Which is further confirmed by experi- 

 ments lately made on new -planted trees; 

 where, by frequently warning the bodies of 

 the mod unpromiiing, they have out-ftrip- 

 ped the other trees of the fame plantation. 

 And Mr. Miller advifes, « Now and then 

 t£ in an evening to water the head, and with 

 << a brufli to warn, and fupple the bark all 

 « round the trunk, which (fays he) I have 

 < c often found very ferviceable." 



Experiment XLIII. 



Auguji 20th, at i p. m. I took an Apple- 

 branch b, (Fig. 26. ) nine feet long, 1 -j- 

 } inch diameter, with proportional latera 1 

 branches ; I cemented it faft to the tube a 

 by means of the leaden fyphon /: But firfl 

 I cut away the bark, and lail year's ringlet 

 wood, for three inches length to r. I thei 

 filled the tube with water, which was twelv« 

 feet long, and \ inch diameter, having firi 



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