Vegetable Statich. %j 
weight. In April it fhot out 4 branches, 
two of which were 3 j feet long, the othei: 
two were one of them 14 inches, the other 
9 inches, in length: Thefc all produce 4 
fair large leaves, it had loft 14 ounce in 
weight, and in three weeks more it loft 
2:; ounces more, and was much withered. 
Experiment VI. 
Spear-mint hdn^ a plant that thrives moft 
kindly in water, (in order the more ac- 
curately to obferve what water it would 
imbibe, and perfpire by night and day, irx 
wet or dry weather) I cemented at r a plant 
of it my into the inverted (yphon r y x b 
(Fig. 2.) the fyphon was i inch diam. at 
but larger at r. , 
I filled it full of water, the plant imbibe 
cd the water fo as to make it fall in the 
day, (in March) near an inch and half from 
b to ty and in the night i inch from t to i: 
but one night, when it was fo cold, as to 
make the Thermometer fink to th^e freezing 
point, then the mint imbibed nothing, but 
hung down its head j as did alfo the young 
beans in the garden, their fap being great- 
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