8i Vegetable Statkks. 
day, after cutting, lefs pervious, not only for 
water, but alfo for the fap of the vine, which 
never paffes to and fro fo freely thro' the 
tranfverfe cut, after it has been cut 3 or 4 
days, as at firft 5 probably, becaufe the cut 
capillary veflels are fhrunk, the vcficlcs alfo, 
and interftices between them, being faturate 
and dilated with extravafated fap, much more 
than they are in a natural ftate. 
If I cut an inch or two off the lower 
part of the ftem, which has been much fatu- 
rated by Handing in water, then the branch 
will imbibe water again afrefh ; tho’ not al- 
together fo freely, as when the branch was 
firft cut off the tree. 
I repeated the fame experiment as this 22d, 
upon a great variety of branches of feveral 
fizes and of different kinds of trees, fome 
of the principal of which are as follow, 
ExperiiMent XXIII. 
July 6 th and 8 th, I repeated the fame ex- 
periment with feveral green fhoots of the 
Vine, of this year's growth, each of them 
full two yards long. 
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