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Anno 1692. 
The Wto 
gained by 
the Plant 
The Wt. 
of the 
Water ex- 
The Glajfe^ made ufe of in thisy were of the fame fort 
with thofe. in the former Experiment : and cover'd over 
with Parchment in like manner. The Plants here were 
all Spear mint : the moft kindly, frefh, fprightly Shoots 
I could choofe. The Water^ and the Plants^ were 
weighed as above : and the Viols fet, in a Line, in a 
South-Window ; where they flood from June 2d, to jfu^ 
ly 28. which was juft 56 days, 
H. Hyde-Parke Conduit Wa- 
ter^ alone. The Mint weighed, 
when put in, 127 gr: when 
taken out, 255 gr. The whole 
quantity of Water expended 
upon this Plant amounted to 
14190 gr. 
This was all along a very 
kindly Plant : and had run up 
to above two foot in beigbt. It 
had (hot but one conliderable 
collateral branch : but had fent 
forth many and long Rootes^ \ S^' 
from which fprung very nume- ( ^'^7 
rous tho* fmall, and ftiort lefler 
Fibres, Thefe leffer Roots came 
out of the larger on two oppo- 
fite fides, for the moft part j fo 
that each Root, with it's Ft- 
Irilla^ appeared not unlike a 
fmall Feather. To thefe Fi- 
hrilU adher'd pretty much ter- 
rejtrial Matter. In the Water 
which was at laft thick and tur- 
bid, was a green fubftance re- 
fembling a fine thin Conferva, J 
Gg a 
The Wt. 
of the 
Plant 
when firft 
fet m Wa- 
ter. 
Tks Wt. 
of the PI. 
when ta- 
ken again 
out of the 
Water, 
gr. 
^55 
during the pended up 
56 days, on the 
Plants 
The PfoportloR of 
tlie Encreafe of tkf 
Plant to the Ex- 
pence of th« Wa° 
ter. 
128 
gr. As 
1419O I to llOrl^ 
la The 
