Vegetable Staticks. 2,7 
weight. In April it fhot out 4 branches, 
two of which were 3± feet long, the other 
two were one of them 14 inches, the other 
9 inches, in length : Thefe all produced 
fair large leaves, it had loft trounce in 
weight, and in three weeks more it loft 
2 $ ounces more, and was much withered. 
Experiment VI. 
Spear-mint being a plant that thrives moft 
kindly in water, (in order the more ac- 
curately to obferve what water it would 
imbibe, and perfpirc by night and day, in 
wet or dry weather) I cemented at r a plant 
of it m, into the inverted fyphon r y x b 
(Fig. 2.) the fyphon was inch diam. at b, 
but larger at r. 
I filled it full of water, the plant imbib- 
ed the water fo as to make it fall in the 
day, (in March) near an inch and half from 
b to t, and in the night 7 inch from t toi: 
but one night, when it was fo cold, as to 
make the Thermometer fink to the freezing 
point, then the mint imbibed nothing, but 
hung down its head ; as did alfo the young 
beans in the garden, their fap being great- 
