% 2, Vegetable Statkks. 



we may obferve, that the limon-trec,whiai 

 is an ever-green, perfpires much lefs than the 

 Sunflower, or than the Vine or the Apple-tree, 

 whofe leaves fall off in the winter 5 and as 

 they perfpire lefs, fo are they the better able 

 to furvive the winter's cold, becaufe they 

 want proportionably but a very fmall fup- 

 ply of frefh nourifliment to fupport them : 

 Like the exangueous tribe of animals, frogs, 

 toads, tortoifes, ferpents, infects, &c. which 

 as they perfpire little; (o do they live the 

 whole winter without food. And this I 

 find holds true in 12 other different forts 

 of ever-greens, on which I have made Ex- 

 periments. 



The above mentioned Mr. Miller made 

 the like experiments in the Botanick-gar- 

 den atCfcelfea, on a plantain-tree, an aloe, 

 and a paradife apple-tree 5 which he weigh- 

 ed morning, noon, and night, for feve- 

 ral fuccefllve days. I (hall here infert the di- 

 aries of them, as he communicated them to 

 me, that the influence of the different tem- 

 peratures of the air, on the perfpiration of 

 thefe plants, may the better be feen. 



The pots which he made ufe of were 

 glazed, and had no holes in their bottoms, as 



garden 



