3 o Vegetable Statkks. 
with two inches flem, and its 12 adjoining 
leaves 5 1 fet the ftem in a little viol of wa- 
ter it imbibed and perfpired in three days 
f of an ounce. 
At the fame time I cut off from the fame 
tree another bearing twig of the fame 
length, with 12 leaves on it, but no apple ; 
it imbibed in the fame three days near } of 
an ounce. 
About the fame time I fet in a viol of 
water a fhort ftem of the fame tree, with 
two large apples on it without leaves 3 they 
imbibed near ^ ounce in two days. 
So in this Experiment, the apple and the 
leaves imbibe f ounce 3 the leaves a- 
lone near but the two large apples imbib- 
ed and perfpired but 7 part fo much as the 
1 2 leaves ; then one apple imbibed the ^ part 
of what was imbibed by the 12 leaves, there- 
fore two leaves imbibe and perfpire as much 
as one apple ; whence their perfpirations 
feem to be proportionable to their furfaces ; 
the furface of the apple being nearly equal 
to the fum of the upper and under furfaces 
of the two leaves. 
Whence it is probable, that the ufe of 
thefe leaves, (which are placed, juft where 
the 
