J/egetahle Statkks. 4 ^ 
This experiment may fafely be repeated 
with well feented and perfumed common 
water, which trees will imbibe at //without 
any danger of killing them. 
Experiment XIII. 
In order to try whether the capillary fap- 
vcffels had any power to protrude fap out 
at their extremities , and in what quantity, I 
made the three following experiments, viz. 
In Auguft I took a cylinder of an apple- 
branch, 12 inches long | diameter : I fet it 
with its great end downwards in a mint glafs, 
( full of water) tyed over with ox-gut. The 
top of the ftick was raoift for 10 days, while 
another ftick of the fame branch ( but out 
of water ) was very dry. It evaporated an 
ounce of water in thofc 10 days. 
Experiment XIV. 
In Sept. I fix’d a tube t (Fig. 7.) 7 feet 
long, to a like ftem f , as the farmer , and 
fet the ftem in water x , to try if,' as the wa- 
ter evaporated out of the top of the ftem r , 
it would rife to any height in the tube 1 5 but 
