Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — Absorption of Water. [ARTICLE]

Absorption of Water.

The statement that all the water in a plant or tree is due to absorption by the roots, while nearly true; is not strictly so. Duchartre concluded from some well-devised experiments that the leaves are incapable of imbibing water or its vapor, and for twenty years physiologists accepted and taught this doctrine. But a few years ago his experiments were repeated in England, And it was found that he had been led into error, and that leaves can and do continually absorb vapor when there is more of it without than within them, as every one sees who observes the refreshing influence of a shower, or of humid after dry air.— Vick’s Magazine.