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I have tryed the fame experiment with 
feveral vine branches cut off, and fet in 
water thus, but no water rofe into f 
Thefe three laft experiments all (hew, that 
tho' the capillary fap vefiels imbibe moifture 
plentifully ; yet they have little power to 
protrude it farther, without the aftiftance of 
the perfpiring leaves, which do greatly pro- 
mote its progrefs. 
Experiment XVI. 
In order to try whether any fap rofe in 
the winter, I took in January feveral par- 
cels of Filberd-fuckers, Vine-branches, green 
Jeflamine-branches, Philarca and Laurel- 
branches, with their leaves on them, and 
dipped their tranfverfe cuts in melted ce- 
ment, to prevent any moifturc’s evaporating 
thro’ the wounds ; I tyed them in feparate 
bundles and weighed them. 
The Filberd-fuckers decreafed in 8 days 
(fome part of which were very wet, but 
the laft 3 or 4 days drying winds) the nth 
part of their whole weight. 
The Vine-cuttings in the fame time the 
r? part. 
The 
