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day, after cutting, kfs pervious, not only for 

 water, but alfo for the fap of the vine, which 

 never paffes to and fro fo freely thro* the 

 tranfverfe cut , after it has been cut 3 or 4 

 days, as at firft 5 probably, becaufe the cut 

 capillary veffels are fhrunk, the veficles alfo, 

 and interftices between them, being faturate 

 and dilated with extravafatcd fap, much more 

 than they are in a natural ftate. 



If I cut an inch or two off the lower 

 part of the ftem, which has been much fatu- 

 xated by ftanding in water, then the branch 

 will imbibe water again afrefh ; tho' not al- 

 together fo freely, as when the branch was 

 firft cut off the tree. 



I repeated the fame experiment as this 22d, 

 upon a great variety of branches of feveral 

 flzes and of different kinds of trees, fome 

 of the principal of which are as follow. 

 viz. 



Experiment XXIII. 



July 6th and 8th, I repeated the fame ex- 

 periment with feveral green fhoots of the 

 Vine, of this year's growth; each of them 

 full two yards long. 



The 



