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they will not touch all the fummer ; when they 

 are apt to grow rank in tafte, and fmell, and 

 become ftalky and hard. Thus many people 

 cat the 7iettle in the fpring ; but who could 

 bear it afterwards ? Again, becaufc fome kinds 

 of animals eat the flower, and will not eat the 

 ftalks ; others eat the leaves and will not eat 

 the ftalks. N. B. When they eat the leaves, we 

 fay in general they eat the plant, otherwife 

 there would be few graffes they could be faid 

 to eat. CEcon. Nat. Next, the animals ousht 

 not to be over hungry, when we make our ex- 

 periments, if we intend to make them properly. 

 For they will greedily devour moft kinds of 

 plants atfuch a time, which they will abfolutely 

 refufe at another. Thus when they come im- 

 mediately out of the houfe, they are not fit to 

 make experiments upon •, for then they are 

 ravenous after every green thing that comes in 

 their way. The befl method is to make the 

 experiments when their bellies are almoft full, 

 for they are hardly ever fo intirely. Moreover 

 the plants ought not to be handled by fweaty 

 hands j fome animals will refufe the moll plea- 

 fmg, and tafteful in that cafe. We ought to 

 throw them on the ground, and if we find the 

 animal refufes tp eat them, we mud mix them 



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