than I imagined could have been by any infufion, fot 

 none of the Seeds (of which I tryed many forts,) 

 came up rhe firi* three or four days ; and except Ra- 

 difh, none came up in a fortnights time, though they 

 ' were fo vn in Augaft^ and watered. 



I have tikewife tryed the Experiment of Afhes o£ 

 Mofs : Eirft, burning a great quantity of Mofs to 

 afriss, and then taking fome of the richeft Garden 

 mould I could procure from a rotten hot Bed, and 

 mixing it with the afhes, I moiftned it with exceeding 

 good Muck-water feverai times, and let it as often 

 dry in the Sun; this I did in glazed pans, that the 

 Salt might not be wafhed from the Earth ; then I low- 

 ed Seeds, fome uniteeped, fome fxceped, and in the 

 beginning of September fet the Pans upon the Leads 

 of an Houfe : But in effect, the Sailad fprang not up 

 that day, nor many days after. 



The next day 1 id into fome of the fame kinde of 

 Soyl, made up of Mofs-afhes and dung, watered as 

 above, divers Seeds fteeped in Spirit of Urine alone, 

 Spirit of Urine with water mixed, Spirit of Urine 

 mixt with phlegm of Elder-berries, all withont fuc- 

 ■cefs, though 1 fee them in a Pan of Earth over a gen- 

 tle fire, to fpeed the Germination : Formerly I have 

 fcen Spirit of Nicre tryed, but to no purcofe ; fome 

 tpeak of working thefe fuddain Germinations by fame- 

 what made of Salt, Spirit,and Oyl, chymically united 

 into one Body, which when they (hail dif cover unto 

 us, o: o':herwife make us poffeflbrs of, we ihall have 

 a better opinion of the rehired experiment. 



?. s to ordinary Acceleration* hot Beds are the mod 

 general and catholuk help, and certainly forward 

 Germination much: For Cabbige-feed fo,vn in the 

 Spring on a hot Bed, I have feen, to bring Plants that 



have 



