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Title: Vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables : being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation : Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society
Year: 1727 (1720s)
Authors: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761 Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2-1733, engraver Royal Society (Great Britain) Burndy Library, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plant physiology Air
Publisher: London : Printed for W. and J. Innys ... and T. Woodward ...
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r 12 6 Feget able Statkks. moft Shrubs will grow in an inverted ftacc,with their tops downwards in the earth* Experiment XLIL July 27th, I repeated Monfieur TeraulfsExperiment, viz. I took Duke Cherry, Ap»pie and Curran-Boughs, with two brancheseach, one of which a c (Fig. 25,) X immer-fed in the large veffel of water e d, the o~ther branch hanging in the open air : I hungon a rail, at the fame time, other branchesof the fame forts, which were then cut off.After three days, thofe on the rails were verymuch withered and dead, but the branchesb were very green $ in 8 days the branch hof the Duke-Cherry was much withered 5but the Currans and Apple-branch b did notfade till the eleventh day : Whence tis plain,by the quantities that muft be perfpired In.eleven days, to keep the leaves b green folong, and by the wafte of the water, out ofthe veffel, that thefe boughs b muft havedrawn much water, from and thro the o-ther boughs and leaves c, which were im-merfcd in the veffel of water. Ire-
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Vegetable Staticks. \%y I repeated the like Experiment on thebranches of Vines and Apple-trees, by run-ning their boughs as they grew into largeglafs chymical retorts full of water, wherethe leaves continued green for feveral weeks,and imbibed confiderable quantities of water.This fhews how very probable it is, thatrain and dew is imbibed by vegetables , efpe-cially in dry feafons. Which is further confirmed by Experi-ments lately made on new planted trees jwhere by frequently wafhing the bodiesof the moft unpromifing, they have out-ftrip-ped the other trees of the fame plantation.And Mr. Miller advifes Now and thente in an evening to water the head, and withtc a brufh to wafh and fupple the bark all round the trunk, which (fays he) I have€£ often found very ferviceable. Supplementto his Gardener s Dictionary, Vol. II. underPlanting. Experiment XLIII. Auguft 20th at i. p.m. I took an Apple-branch b, (Fig. 26.) nine feet long, i -f-i inch diameter, with proportional lateral branches

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