2 6 Vegetable Staticks. 



A diary ofafmallFaradlte'Aipplc, With one 

 upright ft em 4 feet high > and two [mall 

 lateral branches about 8 inches long. This 

 plant flood under a cover of r wood zvhich 

 was open on all fides. 



5726 





May, 





|8 



37 



l 9 



37 



20 



56 



21 



36 



22 



36 



?4 



4 



1 



12 



7 

 3a 



i8i36 

 17 .36 

 i8f 3 6 



36 



26 



26 

 2 7 



35 4 



34 9 

 33 71^8 



213: 



3 



10, 



5 



■8i34 6; 



22 37 

 zi 36 



23 36 



2T, 36 



24 j 3 6 



I 20 



9 20 

 4 '20 



:>/-;>:> i2 ;>• 



36 35 00 30 



, i i 



34 34 l 32 



The leaves v*rv dry, 



2 and become fpeckied to: 



J wane of dew. 



j Then he removed the 



plane into the ftove-o 



to try what ef7e& that 



would have on its per- 



fpi ration. 



At this timetheleaves 

 were withered with the 

 heat and hun^ down as if 

 they would fall off. 



A" this time fevenl 

 of the leaves began to 

 fail off. 



hll the leaves fallen 

 off, exct'p: a few fma'l 

 ones, at the extremities 

 of the branches which, 

 had put out, finse ths 

 plant was in the ftove. 



The earth it flood in 

 was very moift all the 

 time. 



In QBober 1725- Mr. Miller took up 

 an African Br 'iony-root, which when cleared 

 from the mould weighed 8 pound | ounce 5 

 he laid it on a fhelf in the ftove , where 

 it remained till the March following 5 when 

 upon weighing he found it had loft of its 

 I weight* 



