Vegetable Stanch • 4 j 
This experiment may fafely be repeated 
with well feented and perfumed common 
water, which trees will imbibe at ll with* 
out any danger of killing them. 
Experiment XIII. 
In order to try whether the capillary fap« 
veffels had any power to protrude fap out 
at their extremities, and in what quantity, I 
made the three following experiments, viz. 
In Auguft I took a cylinder of an apple- 
branch, 1 2 inches long 7 T diameter : I fet it 
with its great end downwards in a mint glals, 
(full of water) tyed over with ox-gut. The 
top of the flick was moift for ten days, while 
another flick of the fame branch (but out 
of water) was very dry. It evaporated an 
ounce of water in thofe ten days. 
Experiment XIV. 
In Sept . I fix s d a tube t (Fig. y.) y feet 
long, to a like ftem as the former, and 
fet the ftem in water#, to try if, as the wa- 
ter evaporated out of the top of the ftem r 9 
it would rife to any height in the tube f $ but 
it 
