i } 6 Vegetable Staticks. 



It was the fame in a Quince-branch as the 

 Duke- cherry. 



N. B. When I cut a notch in either of 

 thefe branches, 3 feet above r, at q> I could 

 neither fee nor feel any moifture, notwkh- 

 flanding there was at the fame time a great 

 quantity of water paffing by ; for the branch 

 imbibed at the rate of 4, 3, or 2 inches per 

 minute, of a column of water which was 

 half inch diameter. 



The reafon of which drinefs of the notch 

 q is evident from Experiment 11, viz. be- 

 caufe the upper part of the branch above 

 the notch imbibed and perfpired three or four 

 times more water, than a column of feven 

 feet height of water in the tube could im- 

 pel from the bottom of the ft em to y, which 

 was three feet length of ftem ; and confe- 

 quently, the notch muft neceffarily be dry, 

 notwithftanding fo large a ftream of water 

 was paffing by ; viz. becaufe the branch and 

 ftem above the notch was in a ftrongly im- 

 bibing ftate, in order to fupply the great per- 

 ipiration of the leaves. 



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