8 6 Vegetable Staticks . 
The root imbibed the water with fo much 
vigour, that in 6 minutes time the mercury 
was raifed up the tube d z as high as z, viz. 
3 inches. 
The next morning at 8 a clock, the mer- 
cury was fallen to 2 inches height, and 2 
inches of the end of the root i were yet 
immerfed in water. As the root imbibed 
the water, innumerable air bubbles iflued 
out at /, which occupied the upper part of 
the tube at r as the water left it. 
Experiment XXII. 
The eleventh Experiment fhews, with 
what great force branches imbibe water, 
where a branch with leaves imbibed much 
more than a column of 7 feet height of 
water could in the fame time drive through 
1.3 inches length of the biggeft part of its 
Item. And in the following Experiments 
we fhail find a farther proof of their ftrong 
imbibing power. 
May 25, I cut off a branch of a young 
thriving Apple-tree b , (Fig. 11.) about 3 
feet long, with lateral branches 5 the diame- 
ter of the tranfverfe cut /, where it was cut 
off*, was \ of an inch : The great end of 
rhis 
