Vegetable Stands. 133 
Experiment XLII. 
July 27th, I repeated Monfieur Teraulfs 
Experiment, *viz, I took 'Duke-Cherry, Ap- 
ple and Curran- Boughs, with two branches 
each, one of which a c (Fig. 25.) I immer- 
fed in the large veffel of water e d, the o- 
‘ther branch hanging in the open air : I hung 
on a rail, at the fame time, other branches 
of the fame forts, which were then cut off. 
After three days, thofe on the rails were very 
much withered and dead, but the branches 
h Were very green 5 in 8 days the branch b 
of the Duke-Cherry was much withered 5 
hut the Currans and Apple-branch b did not 
fade till the eleventh day : Whence 'tis plain, 
by the quantities that muft be perfpired in 
eleven days, to keep the leaves b green fo 
long, and by the wade of the water, out of 
the veffel, that thefe boughs b mud .have 
drawn much water, from and through the 
other boughs and leaves c, which were irn- 
merfed in the veffel of water. 
I repeated the like Experiment on the 
branches of Vines and Apple-trees, by rum 
ning their boughs as they grew into large 
glafs chymical retorts full of water, where 
the leaves continued green for feyeral 
K 3 week.% 
