1 8 Vegetable StaUcks. 
ly condenfcd by cold. In a rainy day the 
mint imbibed very little. 
I purfaed this Experiment no farther. Dr.' 
Woodward having long fince, from feveral 
curious experiments and obfervatibns, given 
an account in the Philofophical Tranfadions, 
of the plentiful perfpirations of this plant. 
Experiment VII. 
In Auguft^ I dug up a large dwarf 7 ear- 
treCy which weighed 71 pounds 8 ounces; 
I fet its root in a known quantity of wa« 
ter 5 it imbibed 15 pounds of water in 10 
hours day, and perfpired at the fame time 
1 5 pounds 8 ounces. 
In July and Augufty I cut off feveral 
branches of Apple-trees, Pear, Cherry, and 
Apricock-trees, two of a fort 5 they were of 
feveral lizes from 3 to (5 feet long, with pro- 
portional lateral branches; and the tranfverfe 
cut of the largeft part of their Items was a- 
bout an inch diameter. 
I ftripped the leaves off of one bough of 
each fort, and then fet their Items in fepa- 
ratc glalfes, pouring in known quantities of 
water. 
The 
