1^4 Vegetable Statich . 
weeks, and imbibed confiderable quantities 
of water. 
This {hews how very probable it is, that 
rain and dew is imbibed by vegetables, efpe- 
dally in dry feafons. 
Which is further confirmed by Experi- 
ments lately made on new-planted trees; 
where by frequently wafhing the bodies of 
the mod unpromifing, they have out-ftrip~ 
ped the other trees of the fame plantation. 
And Mr. Miller advifes, “ Now and then 
€C in an evening to water the head, and wjth 
a brufh to wafh and fupple the bark all 
round the trunk, which (fays he) I have 
€C often found very ferviceable. ” Supple- 
ment to his Gardener s T^iSUonarjy Vol. II, 
under Planting. 
Experiment XLIII. 
Auguft 20th, at i p, m. I took an Apple- 
branch by (Fig. 2 6 .) nine feet long, i -J- 
% inch diameter, with proportional lateral 
branches, I cemented it faft to the tube a , 
by means of the leaden Syphon l: But firft 
I cut away the bark, and laft year’s ringlet of 
wood, for 3 inches length to r. I then fil- 
led the tube with water, which was i z feet 
long, and i inch diameter, having firft cut 
a gap 
