4^ Vegetable Staticks. 
it did not rife at all in the tube, tho* the 
top of the ftem was wet : I then filled the 
tube with water, but it paffed freely into 
the veffel x . 
E XPER IMEN T XV. 
Sept. lo. 2 feet from the ground, I 
cut off the top of a half ftandard 2 )//^^» Cherry- 
tree againft a wall , and cemented on it the 
neck of a Florence flask/, (Fig. 3.) and to 
that flask neck a narrow tube g , 5 feet 
long, in order to catch any moifture that 
fhould arife out of the trunk y ,• but none 
arofe in 4 hours, except a little vapor that 
was on the flask’s neck. 
I then dug up the tree by the roots, and 
fet the root in water, with the glafles affixed 
to the top of the ftem •, after fevcral hours 
nothing rofe but a little dew, which hung 
on the infide of/j yet it is certain by many 
of the foregoing experiments, that if the 
top and leaves of this tree had been on, 
many ounces of water would in this time 
have pafled thro’ the trunk, and been eva- 
porated thro’ the leaves. 
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