The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Kinds of Soils, And the Causes of Their Beneficial Effect in Each Particular Instance ..
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Water is then de- composed by the assistance of light with- in the vegetable ; its inflammable part is employed in the formation of oils, resins, gums, &x. its pure air is partly applied to the production of vegetable acids, and partly expelled as an excrement. Many, indeed, have asserted, that water is the sole food of vegetables ; and among the experiments adduced to prove it, that of Van Helmont, quoted by the illustrous Mr. Boyle*, is by far the most specious. He planted a trunk of willow, ...weighing 51b. in an earthen vessel filled with earth dried in an oven, and then moistened with rain-water. This vessel, it appears, he sunk in the earth, and watered partly with rain-water, and occasionally with distilled. After five years he found the tree to weigh 169 lb. and the earth in which it wus.plant- ed, being again dried, to have lost only 2 oz. of its former weight, though the tree received an increase amounting to 164 lb. Before I proceed to the explication of this experiment, I must remark some cir- V Shaw's Bovle, 2-10.
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