Vegetable Statkks. 4 j 



This experiment may fafely be repeated 

 with well fcented and perfumed common 

 water, which trees will imbibe at //without 

 any danger of killing them, 



Experiment XIIL 



In order to try whether the capillary fap- 

 vefTels had any power to protrude fap out 

 at their extremities , and in what quantity, I 

 made the three following experiments, viz. 



In Auguft I took a cylinder of an apple- 

 branch, 12 inches long f diameter : I fet it 

 with its great end downwards in a mint glafs, 

 ( full of water ) tyed over with ox-gut. The 

 top of the flick was moift for 10 days, while 

 another (tick of the fame branch ( but out 

 of water ) was very dry. It evaporated an 

 ounce of water in thofe 10 days, 



Experiment XIV. 



In Sept. I fix'd a tube t (Fig. 7.) 7 feet 

 long, to a like ftem / , as the former, and 

 fet the ftem in water x , to try if, as the wa- 

 ter evaporated out of the top of the ftem r 9 

 it would rife co any height in the tube t \ but 



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