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little, fo they live the whole Winter without Food. 
He like wife obferv’d, what part of an Inch in Thick- 
nefs is perfpirM by a Man and by feveral Plants : By 
a Man in 24 Hours part of an Inch ; and by the 
following Plants, viz, the Vine, the Sun-flower, 
the Cabbage, the Apple-Tree , tlse Lemon-Tree, 
7T7’ TTT' 7^' it 7' of an Inch in 1 2 Hours. 
That when the perfpiring Surface is diminilh’d by 
taking away the Leaves, th-^ power ot imbibing is 
likewife diminiiVd 5 for the fame Bough, which with 
the Leaves on imbib’d Ounces in 12 Hours, with- 
out the Leaves imbib’d only t Ounce. 
That Fruit will imbibe thro’ the Stem in propor- 
tion to its Suriace, tried in an Apple, which imbib’d 
as much as two Leaves equal to it in Surface. 
That as the Leaves draw Nourifhment to the 
Bloflbms and Fruit, fo they grow large firfl in thofe 
Places where the Bloflbms are. 
That Hops in the middle of an Hop-Ground thrive 
beft, becaufe they imbibe and perfpire the leaft. 
That by 9000 Hop-Vines growing on one Acre of 
Ground, 220 Gallons of Water are imbib’d in a ix 
Hours Day, which Quantity of Water is equal to a 
Depth of tVt part of an Inch fpread on the faid Sur- 
face. 
That Fire-Blafls (as the Gardiners call them) maybe 
occafion’d by Solar Rays refleded from., or condens’d 
by Clouds, or even colleded by means of the denfe 
Steams, which arife melt plentifully m the middle of 
the Hop-Ground. 
That the perTpirlng Matter of Trees is not pro- 
truded by the Power of the Veflels, but exhal’d by 
Htat, which he proves by feveral curious Experi- 
ments. 
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