Vegetable Staticks. \%y 



I repeated the like Experiment on the 

 branches of Vines and Apple-trees, by run- 

 ning their boughs as they grew into large 

 glafs chymical retorts full of water, where 

 the leaves continued green for feveral weeks, 

 and imbibed confiderable quantities of water. 

 This fhews how very probable it is, that 

 rain and dew is imbibed by vegetables , efpe- 

 cially in dry feafons. 



Which is further confirmed by Experi- 

 ments lately made on new planted trees j 

 where by frequently wafhing the bodies 

 of the moft unpromifing, they have out-ftrip- 

 ped the other trees of the fame plantation. 

 And Mr. Miller advifes " Now and then 

 te in an evening to water the head, and with 

 tc a brufh to wafh and fupple the bark all 

 " round the trunk, which (fays he) I have 

 €£ often found very ferviceable." Supplement 

 to his Gardener s Dictionary, Vol. II. under 

 Planting. 



Experiment XLIII. 



Auguft 20th at i. p.m. I took an Apple- 

 branch b, (Fig. 26.) nine feet long, i -f- 

 i inch diameter, with proportional lateral 



branches, 



