it Vegetable Staticks. 
w: may obferve, that the Limon-tree, which 
is an ever-green, perfpires much lefs than the 
Sunflower, or than the Vine or the Apple- 
tree, whofe leaves fall off in the winter 5 
and as they perfpire lefs, fo are they the 
better able to furvive the winter’s cold, 
becaufe they want proportionably but a very 
fmall fupply of frefh nourilhment to fup- 
port them; like the exangueous tribe of 
animals, frogs, toads, tortoifes, ferpents, 
infe&s, &c. which as they perfpire little, 
fo do they live the whole winter without 
food. And this I find holds true in 12 
other different forts of ever-greens, on which 
I have made Experiments. 
The above mentioned Mr. Miller made 
the like experiments in the Botanick-gar- 
den at Chelfea , on a Plantain-tree, an Aloe, 
and a Paradife Apple-tree ; which he weigh- 
ed morning, noon, and night, for fevcral 
fucceffive days. I fhall here infert the di- 
aries of them, as he communicated them to 
tne, that the influence of the different tem- 
peratures of the air, on the perfpiration of 
thefe plants, may the better be feen. 
The pots which he made ufc pf were 
glazed, and had no holes in their bottoms as 
garden, 
