1 8 Vegetable Stat'icks. 
ly condenfed by cold. In a rainy day the 
mint imbibed very little. 
I purfued this Experiment no farther. Dr. 
Woodward having long ftnee, from feveral 
curious experiments and obfervations, given 
an account in the Philofophical Tranfa&ions, 
of the plentiful perfpirations of this plant. 
Experiment VII. 
In Attguft, I dug up a large dwarf Tear- 
tree, which weighed 71 pounds S ounces ; 
I fet its root in a known quantity of wa- 
ter ; it imbibed 1 5 pounds of water in ten 
hours day, and perfpired at the fame time 
15 pounds 8 ounces. 
In July and Auguft I cut off feveral 
branches of Apple-trees, Pear, Cherry, and 
Apricot-trees, two of a fort ; they were of 
feveral fees from 3 to 6 feet long, with pro- 
portional lateral branches ; and the tranfverfe 
cut of the largeft part of their Items was a- 
bout an inch diameter. 
I (tripped the leaves off of one bough of 
each fort, and then fet their Items in fepa- 
rate glafles, pouring in known quantities of 
water. 
The 
