48 Vegetable Staticks. 



The Jefiamine in the fame time the i part. 



The Philarea decreased the i part in 5 

 days. 



The Laurel the % part in 5 days, and more. 



Here is a confiderable daily wafte of lap, 

 which muft therefore neceffarily be fupplied 

 from the root ; whence it is plain that fome 

 fap rifes ail the winter, to fupply this conti- 

 nual wafte , tho* in much lefs quantity than 

 in fummer. 



Hence we fee good reafon why the Ilex, 

 (and the Cedar oiLihanus^ which were the 

 firft on an Z?»g///7>oak,the other on the Larix) 

 were verdant all the winter, notwithftand- 

 ing the oak and Larix leaves were decayed 

 and fallen off; for tho'when the winter 

 came on, there did not fap enough rife to 

 maintain the Oak and Larix leaves, yet by 

 this prefent experiment we fee, that fome 

 fap is continually rifing all the winter > and 

 by experiment the 5 th on the Lime-tree, and 

 by feveral other the like experiments , on 

 many forts of ever-greens, we find that they 

 perfpiring little, live and thrive with little 

 nourifhmentj the Ilex and Cedar might 

 w T ell therefore continue green all the win- 

 ter , notwithstanding the leaves of the trees 

 4 they 



