Vegetable Staticks. 
Experiment XXVIII. 
Augufl 13. I ftripped the leaves off an 
Apple-tree branch , and then fixed the great 
end of the liem in the gage 5 it raifed the 
mercury 2 -j- 1. inches, but it foon fubfided, 
for want of the plentiful perfpiration of 
the leaves, fo that the air came in almoft as 
faft as the branch imbibed water. 
Experiment XXIX. 
I tried alfo with what force branches 
would imbibe at their fmall ends, as they 
are in their natural ftate, growing to the 
trees. 
Augujl 2d I cemented faft the gage r i z 
(Fig. 14.) to the pliant branch b , of a dwarf 
Golden Tippin-tree , the fame from which I 
cut the branch in Experiment 2 6: As the 
tranfverfe cut i imbibed the water, the mer- 
cury rofe 5 inches obliquely in the tube z, 
and 4 inches perpendicular. 
In this, as alfo in many of the preced- 
ing Experiments, there were feveral wounds 
in that part of the branch which was with- 
in the large tube r which were made by 
cutting off little lateral twigs, and fwelling 
eyes, that the branch might eafily enter the 
tube : 
