jo Vegetable Statich . 
common water; nor did I find many air 
bubbles in it, when placed in the exhaufted 
receiver, which I expeded to have found; 
but when referved in open viols, it ftinks 
fooner than common water; an argument 
that it is not pure water, but has fome he- 
terogeneous mixtures with it. 
I put alfo a large Sun-flower full blown, 
and as it was growing, into the head of a 
glafs-ftill, and put its roftrum into a bottle, 
by which means there diftilled a good quan- 
tity of liquor into the bottle. It will be 
very eafy in the fame manner to colled the 
perfpirations of fweet fcenctd Flowers, tho* 
the liquor will not long retain its grateful 
odor, but f!ink in few days. 
Experiment XVIII. 
In order to find out what Acres of moi- 
fture nature had provided in the earth, (a- 
gainft the dry fummer feafon) that might 
anfwer this great expence of it, which is fo 
neceflary for the produdion and fupport of 
vegetables. 
July 31. 1724- I dug up a cubicle foot 
earth, in an alley which was very little 
trampled on 5 it weighed (after deduding 
the weight of the containing veffel) 104 
pounds 
