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Vegetable Statkks, 
CHAP. I. 
Experiments, fhewingthe quantities imbibed 
and perffired by Tlants and Trees. 
Experiment L 
J ULY 3. .1724. ill order to find out the 
quantity imbibed and perfpired by the 
Sun- Flower, I took a garden-pot (Fig. i.) 
with a \2iV^c Sun-Flower, a, 3 feet -j- 4. high, 
which was purpofely planted in it when 
young. 
1 covered the pot with a plate of thin 
milled lead, and cemented all the joints faft, 
io as no vapor could pafs, but only air, thro' 
a imall glafstube^^? nine inches long, which 
was fixed purpofely near the ftem of the 
plant, to make a free communication with 
the outward air, and that under the leaden 
plate. 
1 cemented alfo another fhort glafs tube 
g into the plate, two inches long and one 
incli in diameter. Thro^this tube I watered 
the plant, and then flopped it up with a cork 5 
1 flopped up alfo the holes /, I at the bottom 
of the pot with corks. 
I weighed 
