I j 6 Vegetable Statich. 
It was the fame in a Quince-branch as 
the ‘Duke-Cherry . 
N. B . When I cut a notch in either of 
thefe branches, 3 feet above r , at q, I could 
neither fee nor feel any moifture, notwith*- 
{landing there was at the fame time a great 
quantity of water palling by ; for the branch 
imbibed at the rate of 4, 3, or 2 inches per 
minute, of a column of water which was 
half inch diameter. 
The reafon of which drynefs of the 
notch q is evident from Experiment ii ? 
viz. becaufe the upper part of the branch 
above the notch imbibed and perfpired 
three or four times more water, than a 
column of feven feet height of water ia 
the tube could impel from the bottom of 
the Item to q , which was three feet length 
of ftem$ and confequently, the notch mull 
necelfarily be dry, notwithftanding fo large 
a ftream of water was palling by $ viz. 
becaufe the branch and ftem above the 
notch was in a ftrongly imbibing ftate, 
ia order to fupply the great perfpiration 
of the leaves. 
Exp g? 
