Vegetable Stat'icks . x 7 
Which yet muft be done with caution, for 
the skillful and ingenious Mr. Thilip Miller 
F. R. S. Gardiner of the Botanick garden at 
Chelfea , in his very ufeful Gardiners and 
FloriftsDi&ionary, fays, “ That he has often 
“ feen trees, that have had too much water 
given them after planting, which has rotted 
€e all the young fibres, as faft as they have 
* e been pufhed out 5 and fo many times has 
killed the tree.” Supplement Vol. II. of 
planting. And I obferved that the dwarf 
pear-tree, whofe root was fet in water, in 
Exper, 7 . decreafed very much daily in the 
quantity imbibed 5 viz. becaufe the fap vef 
fels of the roots, like thofe of the cut off 
boughs, in the fame experiment, were fo 
faturated and clogged with moifture, by 
{landing in water, that more of it could 
not be drawn up to fupport the leaves. 
Experiment IIL 
Hzomjuly zZaq Aug . 25. I weighed for 
twelve feverai mornings and evenings* a 
thriving Vine growing in a pot, I was fur- 
nifhed, with this and other trees, from his 
Majefty's garden at Hampton court } by the 
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