Vegetable Staticks. 127 
I repeated the like Experiment on the 
branches of Vines and Apple-trees, by run- 
ning their boughs as they grew into large 
glafs chymical retorts full of water, where 
the leaves continued green for feveral weeks, 
and imbibed confiderable quantities of water. 
This (hews how very probable it is, that 
rain and dew is imbibed by vegetables , cfpe- 
cially in dry feafons. 
Which is further confirmed by Experi- 
ments lately made on new planted trees; 
where by frequently wafhing the bodies 
of the moft unpromifing, they have out-ftrip- 
ped the other trees of the fame plantation. 
And Mr. Miller advifes Now and then 
in an evening to water the head, and with 
a brufh to walh and fupple the bark all 
round the trunk, which (fays he) I have 
often found very ferviceable."' Supplement 
to his Gardener s Diftionary, Vol. II. under 
Planting. 
Experiment XLIII. 
Auguft 20th at 1 p, m, I took an Apple- 
branch (Fig. 26.) nine feet long, i -f- 
i inch diameter, with proportional lateral 
branches, 
