Vegetable Stanch. i o i 



the fap of the Vine is pufhed forth, in the 

 bleeding feafon. 



Experiment XXXIV. 



March 30th at 3 p. m. I cut off a Vine 

 on a weftern afpeft, within fcven inches of 

 the ground, the remaining ftumpr ( Fig. 1 7 ) 

 had no lateral branches: It was 4 or 5 years 

 old, and % inch diameter. I fix'd to the top 

 of the Hump, by means of the brafs col- 

 lar b, the glafs tube b f, feven feet long, and 

 i inch diameters I fecured the joynt b with 

 ftiff cement made of melted Beeswax and 

 Turpentine, and bound it faft over with fe- 

 veral folds of wet bladder and pack-thread : 

 I then fcrewed a fecond tube f g to the 

 firft, and then a third g a to 25 feet height. 



The ftem not bleeding into the tube, I 

 filled the tube two feet high with water, 

 the water was imbibed by the ftem within 

 3 inches of the bottom, by 8 a clock that 

 evening. In the night it rained a fmall 

 fhower. The next morning at 6 -}- £, the 

 water was rifen three inches above what it 

 was fallen to laft night at eight a clock. 

 The Thermometer which hung ia my porch 

 H 3 was 



