Vegetable Staticks . 131 
Experiment XLL 
Aug . 1 3th, at noon I took a large branch 
of an Apple-tree , (Fig, 22.) and cemented 
up the tranfverfe cut, at the great end x % 
and tied a wet bladder over it : I then cur 
off the main top branch at b\ where it 
was t inch diameter, and fet it thus invert- 
ed into the bottle of water b . 
In three days and two nights it imbibed 
and perfpired 4 pounds 2 ounces *4- 4 of 
water, and the leaves continued greens the 
leaves of a bough cut off the fame tree at 
the fame time with this, and not fet in 
water, had been withered forty hours be- 
fore. This, as well as the great quanti- 
ties imbibed and perfpired, fhews, that the 
water was drawn from b moft freely to e 7 
f, g> and from thence down their re« 
fpeftive branches, and fo perlpired off by 
the leaves. 
This Experiment may ferve to explain 
the reafon, why the branch b , (Fig. 23.) 
which grows out of the root c x, thrives 
very well, notwithftanding the root c x is 
here fuppofed to be cut off at c 7 and to 
be out of the ground : For by many Expe- 
riments in the firft and fecond chapters, it 
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