1 6 Vegetable Staticks. 
A diary of a fmall Paradife- Apple, with one 
upright ftem 4 feet high ; and two fmall 
lateral branches about 8 inches long. This 
plant flood under a cover of wood which 
was open on all fldes. 
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The leaves very dry 9 
and become fpeckled for 
want of dew. 
Then he removed the 
plant into the flove, to 
try what effe& thac 
would have on its per- 
fpiration. 
At thistime theleaves 
were withered with the 
heat, and bung down as 
if they would fall off. 
At this time feveral 
of the leaves began to 
fall off. 
All the leaves fallen 
off, except a few fmall 
ones, at the extremities 
of the branches which 
had put out, fince the 
plant was in the Rove. 
The earth it flood in 
was very moift all th* 
In 0 Bober 17 25* Mr. Miller took up am 
r . African Briony-root 5 which when cleared 
from the mould weighed eight ounces y $ 
he laid it on a fiielf in the ftove, where it 
remained till the March followings when 
upon weighing he found it had loft of its 
weight* 
