no Vegetable Statich. 



13 days after b, and 4 days after a. May 5. 

 at 7 a. m. a pufhed 1 inch, n ^-J, but 

 towards noon they all three fucked. 



I have frequently obferved the fame dif- 

 ference in other Vines, where the like gages 

 have been fixed at the fame time, to old 

 and young branches of the fame Vine, vtz& 

 the oldeft began firft to fuck. 



In this Experiment we fee the great force 

 of the fap, at 44 feet 3 inches diftancefrom 

 the root, equal to the force of a column of 

 water 30 feet -j- 11 inches -j- £ high. 



From this Experiment we fee too , that 

 this force is not from the root only, but 

 rnufl alfo proceed from fome power, in the 

 item and branches : For the branch b was 

 much fooner influenced by changes from 

 warm to cool, cr dry to wet, and vice ver- 

 y^,than the other two branches a or C} and' 

 b was in an imbibing ftate, 9 days before 

 a y which was all that time in a ftate of pufh- 

 ing fap 5 and c pufhed 1 3 days after b had 

 ceafed pufning, and was in an imbibing 

 ftate. 



Which imbibing ftate Vines and Apple- 

 trees continue in all the fummer, in every 



branch, 



