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ing in the water, and it will be dry enough for fowing 

 in an hour or two after; if any fufpicion of fmut in 

 the feed, it njay rennain fome hours in the water 

 without injury. I ufe no lime, It drilling better 

 without. 



This is the pradiice of. Sir, your mofl obedient 

 humble fervant, 



JAMES WYBORN. 

 UulUFtace^ Feb. liy 1792. 



P. S. My gardener, a very ingenious Scot, has of- 

 ten aflured me, that in the early culture of cucumbers 

 in frames, on finding a female open and expanding 

 herfelf before any male was prefent, Iffe has had re- 

 courfe to a little dry duft from the border, which 

 has fo tickled her fancy as to produce in a few days 

 as fine a cucumber as the farina of the llouteft male 

 could have effedled j if this be true, (and I have no 

 reafon to doubt his word) furely it militates againfl 

 fome received opinions. This experiment is eafily 

 tried by any who wilh to be better fatisfied. We 

 read that the dufl which arifes like fmoke from that 

 fpecies of fungus called puff-ball, appears on a mi- 

 crofcopic obfervation to be the embryos of that fpe- 

 cies, or fo many little puff-balls. I wifh thofe who 

 have an opportunity would thus examine the pow- 

 der of fmut ball. 



ARTfCLB 



