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the accelerating would have been the speedier. This 

 is a noble experiment ; for without this help they 

 would have been four times as long in coming up. 

 But there doth not occur tome, at this present, any 

 use thereof for profit, except it should be for sowing 

 of peas, which have their price very much increased 

 by the early coming. It may be tried also with 

 cherries, strawberries, and other fruit, which are 

 dearest when they come early. 



402. There was wheat steeped in water mixed 

 with cow-dung ; other in water mixed with horse- 

 dung ; other in water mixed with pigeon-dung ; 

 other in urine of man, other in water mixed with 

 chalk powdered, other in water mixed with soot, 

 other in water mixed with ashes, other in water 

 mixed with bay-salt, other in claret wine, other in 

 malmsey, other in spirit of wine. The proportion of 

 the mixture was a fourth part of the ingredients to 

 the water ; save that there was not of the salt above 

 an eighth part. The urine, and wines, and spirit of 

 wine, were simple without mixture of water. The 

 time of the steeping was twelve hours. The time of 

 the year October. There was also other wheat sown 

 unsteeped, but watered twice a day with warm 

 water. There was also other wheat sown simple, to 

 compare it with the rest. The event was, that those 

 that were in the mixture of dung, and urine, and 

 soot, chalk, ashes, and salt, came up within six days ; 

 and those that afterwards proved the highest, thick 

 est, and most lusty, were first the urine, and then 

 the dungs, next the chalk, next the soot, next the 



