ii6 l^e get able Statkks. 
moft Shrubs will grow in an inverted ftate^ 
with their tops downwards in the earth. 
Experiment XLII. 
July 27th, I repeated Monfieur 
Experiment, viz, I took ^uke Cherry y rif- 
fle and Curran-Boughsj with two branches 
each, one of which a c (Fig. 25.) I immer- 
fed in the large veflel of water e d, the o- 
ther branch hanging in the open air : 1 hung 
on a rail, at the fame time, other branches 
of the fame forts, which were then cut off. 
After three days, thofe on the rails were very 
much withered and dead, but the branches 
b were very green ; in 8 days the branch b 
of the T^uke-Cherry was much withered 5 
but the Currans and Apple-branch b did not 
fade till the eleventh day : Whence *tis plain, 
by the quantities that muft be perfpired in 
eleven days , to keep the leaves b green fo 
long, and by the wafte of the water, out of 
the veffel, that thefe boughs b muft have 
drawn much water, from and thro* the o- 
ther boughs and leaves r, which were im- 
merfed in the veftel of water. 
I re- 
