Identifier: vegetablestatick00hale (find matches)
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 ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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*they hung feveral weeks after 5 but the fmellof the camphire was very ftrong in theftalks of the leaves, and in every part of thedead branch. I made the fame experiment on a vine,with ftrongly fcented orange-flower-water 5the event was the fame, it did not penetrateInto the grapes , but very fenfibly into thewood and ftalks of the leaves, I repeated the fame experiment on twodiftant branches of a large Catharine pear-tree, with ftrong decoctions of faffafras,and of elder flowers, about 30 days beforethe pears were ripe; but I could not per-ceive any tafte of the decoctions in the pears. Tho in all thefe cafes the fap-veflels ofthe ftem were ftrongly impregnated witha good quantity of thefe liquors 5 yet thecapillary fap-veflels near the fruit were fofine, that they changed the texture of, andailimilatedto their own fubftance thofe hightafted and perfumed liquors ; in the famemanner as grafts and buds change the verydifferent fap of the flock to that of theirown fpecifick nature. This
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Vegetable Statkks. 4j This experiment may fafely be repeatedwith well fcented and perfumed commonwater, which trees will imbibe at//withoutany danger of killing them, Experiment XIIL In order to try whether the capillary fap-vefTels had any power to protrude fap outat their extremities, and in what quantity, Imade the three following experiments, viz. In Auguft I took a cylinder of an apple-branch, 12 inches long f diameter : I fet itwith its great end downwards in a mint glafs,(full of water) tyed over with ox-gut. Thetop of the flick was moift for 10 days, whileanother (tick of the fame branch (but outof water ) was very dry. It evaporated anounce of water in thofe 10 days, Experiment XIV. In Sept. I fixd a tube t (Fig. 7.) 7 feetlong, to a like ftem / , as the former, andfet the ftem in water x, to try if, as the wa-ter evaporated out of the top of the ftem r 9it would rife co any height in the tube t \ but it 4 6 Vegetable Staticks. it did not rife at all in the tube, tho thetop o

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