Vegetable Staticks. 
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Experiment XXXI. 
I tried alfo the imbibing force of a great 
variety of trees, by fixing Aqueo-mercurial 
gages to branches of them cut off, as in Ex- 
periment 12. 
The Pear, Quince, Cherry, Walnut, Peach, 
Apricot, Plumb, Black* thorn, White thorn, 
Goofeberry, Water-Elder, Sycamore, raifed 
the mercury from 6 to 3 inches high: Thofe 
which imbibed water mo ft freely, in the Ex- 
periments of the firft chapter, raifed the 
mercury highefl: in thefe Experiments, ex- 
cept the Horfe-Chefnut, which though it 
imbibed water moil freely, yet raifed the 
mercury but one inch, becaufe the air paf- 
fed very faft through its fap-veffels into the 
gage. 
The following raifed the mercury but 1 
or 2 inches, viz. the Elm, Oak, Horfe- 
Chefnut, Filberd, Fig, Mulberry, Willow, 
Sallow, Ofier, A(h, Lynden, Currans. 
The Ever-greens and following trees and 
plants, did not raife it at all ; the Laurel, 
Rofemary, Laurus-Tinus, Philarea, Fuz, Rue, 
Berberry, Jeffamine^ucumber-branch^um* 
kin, Jerufalem Artichoke. 
