Vegetable Statich. 2.7 



weight. In April it fiiot out 4 branches, 

 two of which were 3^ feet long, the other 

 two were oneof them 14- inches, the other 

 9 inches, in length : Thefe ail produced 

 fair large leaves, it had loft *| ounce in 

 weight, and in three weeks more it loft 

 2% ounces more, and was much withered. 



Experiment VI. 



Spear-mint being a plant that thrives mod 

 kindly in water, (in order the more ac- 

 curately to obferve what water it would 

 imbibe, and perfpire by night and day, in 

 wet or dry weather) I cemented at r a plant 

 of it m, into the inverted fyphon r y x b 

 (Fig. 2.) the fyphon was % inch diam. at b 9 

 but larger at r. 



I filled it full of water, the plant imbib- 

 ed the water fo as to make it fall in the 

 day, (in March) near an inch and half from 

 b to t y and in the night ? inch from t to i: 

 but one night, when it was fo cold, as to 

 make the Thermometer fink to the freezing 

 point , then the mint imbibed nothing, but 

 hung down its head \ as did alfo the young 

 beans in the garden, their fap being great- 



