9 o J'^e get able S taUckii 
imbibe with the like force, with the bark 
off, I took two branches which I call M 
and N.S I fixed M in the fame manner as 
the branch in the foregoing Experiment, 
with its top downwards, but firft I took off 
all the bark from t to r. Then I fix’d in the 
fame manner the branch i\T, but with its 
great end downwards, having alfo taken off 
all the bark from i to r 5 both the branches 
drew the mercury up to 8 inches ; fo 
they imbibed with equal ftrength at cither 
end, and that without bark. 
Experiment XXVIII. 
'Auguft 13. I ftripped the leaves off an 
Apple tree branch, and then fixed the great 
end of the ftem in the gage 5 it raifed the 
mercury 2 » inches, but it foon fublided, 
for want of the plentiful perfpiration of 
the leaves, fo that the air came in almoft as 
faft as the branch imbibed water. 
Experiment XXIX. 
I tryed alfo with what force branches 
would imbibe, at their fmall ends, as they 
are 
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