124 Vegetable Staticks. 



paffage of the fap, where the direft paffage 



is feveral times intercepted. 



Experiment XLL 



Auguft 13. At noon I took a large branch 

 of an Apple-tree, (Fig. 22.) and cemented 

 up the tranfverfe cut, at the great end x> and 

 tyed a wet bladder over it : I then cut off 

 the main top branch at b 5 where it was f 

 inch diameter, and fet it thus inverted into 

 the bottle oi water b. 



In three days and two nights it imbibed 

 and perfpired 4 pounds -]~ 2 ounces -\- i of 

 water, and the leaves continued green 5 the 

 leaves of a bough cut off the fame tree at 

 the fame time with this, and not fet in 

 water, had been withered 40 hours before. 

 This, as well as the great quantities imbibed 

 and perfpired, fhews, that the water was 

 drawn from b moft freely to e,f,g, h, and 

 from thence down their refpeftive branches, 

 and fo perfpired off by the leaves. 



This Experiment may ferve to explain the 

 reafon, why the branch b y ( Fig. 23 . ) which 

 grows out of the root c x 3 thrives very well, 



notwith* 



