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ok where toe exits any bafis for the plant. 
And, her genuine offspring will grow. any where, 
and every where, with fome exceptions. 
19,:-Are there plants that grow well under the 
Shade of others ? 
That the foil fhould be fhaded, efpecially in hot 
weather, I fhould think proper; but I do not know 
any plant (we with to cultivate) that is not injured 
by the fhade of taller plants—more ftill, I think, by 
their droppings. . 
14. What are the effects of thunder or of lightning, 
or any change of air thereby occafioned, upon plants ? 
I have never noticed any other effe& than that of 
a branch being killed, appearing as if fcorched. 
15. What are the effects of fea air, and the faline 
particles which it contains, upon plants ? 
My obfervation here is very limited, but the trees 
Ihave feen are ftunted, and the herbage coarfe. 1 
have often wifhed, that plantations were madealong 
the fhores of fufficient width for the outward ones 
to, protect the inner ones, and all ferving to guard 
the contiguous land from the immediate operation 
of the faline breeze. 
‘IL. CONCERNING WATER. 
1. What efe& has water in promoting the growth 
of plants, and bringing them to perfection? 
As I do not at prefent believe that one particle of 
fat, oll, or ear att is abforbed from without into the 
conttitution 
