48 Vegetable Stattcks . 
The Jeffamine in the fame time the i part. 
The Fhilarea decreafed the 4 part in five 
days. 
The Laurel the ~ part in 5 days, and more* 
Here is a confiderable daily wafte of fap, 
which muft therefore neceflarily be fupplied 
from the roots whence it is plain that fome 
fap rifes all the winter, to fupply this con- 
tinual wafte, tho' in much lefs quantity than 
in fummer. 
Hence we fee good reafon why the Ilex 
and the Cedar of Libanus (which were graft- 
ed the firft on an Englijh- oak, the other on the 
Larix) were verdant all the winter, notwith- 
ftanding the Oak and Larix leaves were de- 
cayed and fallen off s for tho* when the win- 
ter came on, there did not fap enough rife 
to maintain the Oak and Larix leaves, yet by 
this prefent experiment we fee, that fome 
fap is continually riling all the winter 5 and 
by experiment the 5 th on the Limon-tree, 
and by feveral other the like experiments, on 
many forts of ever-greens, we find that they 
perfpiring little, live and thrive with little 
nourifhment 5 the Ilex and Cedar might 
well therefore continue green all the win- 
ter, notwithftanding the leaves of the trees 
they 
