Vegetable Stanch. 17 



Which yet muft be done with caution* 

 for the skilful and ingenious Mr. Thilip 

 Miller, Gardiner of the Botanick garden at 

 Chelfea, in his very ufeful Gardiners and 

 Florifts Dictionary, fays, " That he has often 

 " feen trees, that have had too much water 

 " given them after planting, which has rotted 

 " all the young fibres, as faft as they have 

 " been pufhed out 5 and fo many times has 

 " killed the tree. " Supplement Vol. II. of 

 planting. And I obferved, that the dwarf 

 pear-tree, whofe root was fet in water , in 

 Exper. 7. decreafed very much daily in the 

 quantity imbibed ; viz: becaufe the fap vcf- 

 fels of the roots, like thofeofthe cutoff 

 boughs, in the fame experiment , were fo 

 faturated and clogged with moifture, by (land- 

 ing in water, that more of it could not be 

 drawn up to fupport the leaves. 



Experiment III." 



From July 28. to Aug. 25. I weighed for 

 twelve feveral mornings and evenings, a 

 thriving Vine growing in a pot j I was fur- 

 nifhed, with this and other trees, from his 

 Majefty's garden at Hampton-court 7 by the 

 C favour 



