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mentioned its ufe for the retardation of the Flowers 

 of Anemonies. 



There is fome ufe of retardation to all fuch Plants 

 which fo prematurely bloffom, that they be fubject to. 

 blading by Spring-Fro'ts • 1 know nothing ufed to 

 prevent this annoyance, but the opening of the Root," 

 and fufermg the Snow, and Snov-waEer, to lie there- 

 on and chil the ground ; but of the benefit or danger 

 of this remedy, I have no experience. 



Num. 8. Of melioration by %Jtfwefs, or other c$nve- 

 nlent Miner a in the Soy I, for the feeding and better 

 nourishment of fever al Plants : Of artificial Begs y 

 and the change of Seed y as a means to bring fair 

 T lowers : Of Exoffation of Fruity $r making it 

 grow without Stones* 



The Lord Vemlam reckons up the making of rich 

 comports for the £ a rth, among the tj^t agnail a Na- 

 fw\e,*and moft advantagious projects for the ufe of 

 •Man ; which rkhnefs, if the modern Hypothefis of 

 Chymifts be right, coniifts in good proportions of felt 

 Spirit, and Oyl ; which are principles generally de- 

 ficient in barren places ; Dry Earth, and cold crude 

 water, or thefe two mixt together, every where a- 

 bounding ; I fay, good proportions, becaufe it is moft 

 certain, that no Vegetable will grow in too great a- 

 bundance of Salt or Spirit, or other violently hot and 

 corrofive matter: Sut and Pidgeons-dung abound 

 much with volatile Salt ; and 1 have this year, upon 

 a cold moift Clay, feen excellent advantage to the 

 Grafs thereby, it being onely rtrewed thin on the 

 Grafs before the Spring, but of the two, the Sut was 

 beft : upon a dry Sand I fhould not have expected the 



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