3 o Vegetable Staikks. 



with two inches flcm, and its 12 adjoining 

 leaves j I let the ftem in a little viol of wa- 

 ter it imbibed and pcripired in three days 

 * of an ounce. 



At the fame time I cut off from the fame 

 tree another bearing twig of the fame 

 length, with 12 leaves on it, but no apple ; 

 it imbibed in the fame three days near £ of 

 an ounce. 



About the fame time I fet in a viol of 

 water a fnort ftem of the fame tree, with 

 two large apples on it without leaves; they 

 imbibed near * ounce in two days. 



So in this Experiment, the apple and the 

 leaves imbibe f ounce ; the leaves a- 

 lone near ±? but the two large apples imbib- 

 ed and perfpired but 7 part fo much as the 

 1 2 leaves 5 then one apple imbibed the f pare 

 of what was imbibed by the 12 leaves, there- 

 fore two leaves imbibe and perfpire as much 

 as one apple; whence their perfpirations 

 feem to be proportionable to their furfaces 5 

 the furface of the apple being nearly equal 

 to the fum of the upper and under furfaces 

 of the two leaves. 



Whence it is probable, that the ufe of 

 rliefe leaves, (which are placed, juft where 



the 



