48 J/e get able Statich. 
The Jeflamine in the fame time the | part. 
The Philarea decreafcd the I part in 5 
days. 
The L aurel the ~ part in 5 days, and more. 
Here is a confiderable daily wafte of lap, 
which muft therefore neceflarily be fupplied 
from the root ; whence it is plain that fome 
fap rifes all the winter, to fupply this conti- 
nual wafte , tho’ in much lels quantity than 
in fummer. 
Hence we fee good reafon why the Ilex, 
(and the Cedar oi LibanuSy which were the 
firft on an EngHpo-ozkyXhc other on the Larix) 
were verdant all the winter, notwithftand- 
ing the oak and Larix leaves were decayed 
and fallen off; for tho* when the winter 
came on, there did not fap enough rife to 
maintain the Oak and Larix leaves, yet by 
this prefent experiment we fee, that fome 
fap is continually riling all the winter ; and 
by experiment the 5 th on the Lime-tree, and 
by fcvcral other the like experiments, on 
many forts of ever-greens, we find that they 
perfpiring little, live and thrive with little 
nourifhment; the Ilex and Cedar might 
well therefore continue green all the win- 
ter , notwithftanding the leaves of the trees 
4 they 
