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I have trycd the fame experiment with 
fcveral vine brandies cut off, and fet in 
water thus, but no water rofe into f, 
Thefe three laft experiments all fhew, that 
tho* the capillary fap vdTels imbibe moifturc 
plentifully ; yet they have little power to 
protrude it farther, without the affiftance of 
the perfpiring leaves , which do greatly pro- 
mote its progrefs. 
Experiment XVL 
In order to try whether any fap rofe in 
the winter, I took in January feveral par- 
cels of Filberd- fuckers, Vine- branches, green 
Jeffamine-branches,Philarea andLaurel-bran- 
ches , with their leaves on them, and dip- 
ped their tranfverfe cuts in melted cement^ 
to prevent any moifture’s evaporating thro' 
the wounds 5 I tycd them in feparate bun- 
dies and weighed them. 
The Philberd-fuckers decrcafed in 8 days 
(fome part of which were very wet, but 
the laft 3 or 4 days drying winds) the nth 
part of their whole weight. 
The vine*cuttings in the fame time the 
2^. part. 
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