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sccuftomed fometimes to divide the feeds of pulfe, and par- 
ticularly beans, each half of which they place in the earth 
and obtain rich crops ; he pounded coarfely fome grains of 
¢orn, threw them into water, and faw that the particles 
which contained germs fell to the bottom. He fowed thefe 
particles, and obtained as good plants as from the whole 
grains: many of them even produced a greater number of 
ftalks. According to Fabbroni’s experiments, the germ 
confifts entirely of the gelatinous or animal part, called by 
fome the gluten or colla, In his opinion, the fermen- 
tation neceflary in the manufacturing of ftarch, is for the 
purpofe of bringing the animal part to a ftate of corruption, 
that it may be then feparated with the greater eafe. Hence 
arifes the unfupportable and certainly unhealthful ftench 
which proceeds from a ftarch manufactory. He afks, 
therefore, if it be not poffible to feparate the gelatinous part 
of the feeds by mechanical means, without ufing water ‘as 
he did, by which the labour would be accelerated and the 
ftench in part prevented. The feparated part might then be 
ground, and employed with other meal for baking bread. 
The germ, in regard to weight, forms only the fixth part of 
the grain. Dr. Molinelli thews, by experiments, that it is 
better to warm olives in the fun, than to fuffer them, ac- 
cording to the old method, to ferment. Olives which in 
1789 had been froft-bitten, yielded, however, by the abave 
method, good oil, 
- The third volume contains an account of the cultivation 
of cotton in the Ifland of Malta; a natural hiftory of the 
neighbourhood of Pifa; a paper by Dr. G. Leffi on the 
pernicious tendency of prohibiting foreign manufactures ; 
Seftini on the ufe of fefamum oil in the Levant, The two 
fpecies of Linneus, and the Se/amum trifoliatum of Miller, 
are, according to his affertion, only varieties. Targioni 
Yozetti junior has obferved, that duck-weed (Lemna) in 
places where it totally covers the water, retires, or con- 
tratts itfelf, as foon as a branch of the Rhus radicans is 
; dipped 
