1 2 6 Fe get able Statkks. 



moft Shrubs will grow in an inverted ftacc, 

 with their tops downwards in the earth* 



Experiment XLIL 



July 27th, I repeated Monfieur Teraulfs 

 Experiment, viz. I took 'Duke Cherry, Ap» 

 pie and Curran-Boughs, with two branches 

 each, one of which a c (Fig. 25,) X immer- 

 fed in the large veffel of water e d, the o~ 

 ther branch hanging in the open air : I hung 

 on a rail, at the fame time, other branches 

 of the fame forts, which were then cut off. 

 After three days, thofe on the rails were very 

 much withered and dead, but the branches 

 b were very green $ in 8 days the branch h 

 of the Duke-Cherry was much withered 5 

 but the Currans and Apple-branch b did not 

 fade till the eleventh day : Whence 'tis plain, 

 by the quantities that muft be perfpired In. 

 eleven days , to keep the leaves b green fo 

 long, and by the wafte of the water, out of 

 the veffel, that thefe boughs b muft have 

 drawn much water, from and thro' the o- 

 ther boughs and leaves c, which were im- 

 merfcd in the veffel of water. 



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