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earth, air, or feafon, and amounts, in my opinion, to 
demonftration, that the alone needful preparative is 
in every one’s reach; that fimple water, exclufive 
of every other preparation, comprehends the defi- 
deratum of ages—a perfect and radical prefervation 
from this corrupt matter, that at once offends the 
fmell, difgufts the eye, and diminifhes in fubftance 
the moft required of all human food. . 
I am, with all due regard, 
Your refpedtful friend, 
JOHN WAGSTAFFE, - 
Norwich, 1798. 
N.B. J. W. had it in view to communicate, 
through his valued friend Matruews, fome farther — 
progrefs made this fummer, of propagating by water 
(in the manner as communicated of cucumbers) 
certain other culinary fubjeéts, particularly kidney- 
beans, which were planted in garden-pots and fet into 
{mall pitched troughs, replenifhed at times with wa- 
ter. Thefe being ranged in ftone yards, or gravelly 
areas, the abundant variety of this plant may be 
trained up on branches, affixed in fockets on the 
fide of the troughs, whence they will exceed the 
height of a tall man—fucceflively exhibit their vari- 
ous bloffom and fruit, to the amufement and ufe of 
thofe who find themfelves interefted herein; but 
as 
