Vegetable Staticks. 4 5 ’ 
ftem could be any thing faturatc with wa- 
ter, or the fap-veflels fhrunk fo as to hin- 
der its paflage. 
Experiment XII. 
I cut off from a dwarf Apple 4 ree e w the 
top of the branch 4 (Fig- ^ ) which was an 
inch diameter, and fixed to the ftem 4 the 
glafs-tube lb: then I poured water into 
the tube, which the branch would imbibe , 
fo as to drink down 2 or 3 pints in a day, 
efpecially if I fucked with my mouth at 
the top of the tube by fo as that a few air 
bubbles were drawn out of the flem /5 then 
the water was imbibed fo fall, that if I im- 
mediately ferewed on the mercurial gage, 
m r y Zy the mercury would be drawn up 
to r, 12 inches higher than in the other 
leg. 
At another time I poured into the tube /, 
fixed to a golden Renate-tree, a quart of 
high reftified fpirit of wine, camphorated, 
which quantity the ftem imbibed in 3 hours 
fpace y this killed one half of the tree : this I 
did to try if I could give a flavour of cam- 
phire to the apples which were in great 
plenty 
