ij:^ y^;/ E S S Ay on thePrac^fs Chap.^. 



rendering it more capable of entring the 

 Seeds and Vegetables fet in it, in order to 

 their Nouripment, than otherwife it would 

 have been. The Properties of Lime are well 

 known, and how apt it is to be put into 

 Ferment and Commotion by Water. Nor can 

 fuch Cornmotion ever happpen when Lime is 

 mix'd with Earthy however hard and clodded 

 that may be, without opening and loofening 

 of it. 

 obferv. 4. 4. The Plant is more or lefs noiirip^d and 

 Plants grom augmented, in Proportion as the Water in vohich 

 ^\%he^e^^u fi^^^^ ^077^^2715 a greater orfmaller quantity 

 more Vhfsof proper Terreftrial Matter in it. The Truth 

 Terreflriai of this Propofition is fo eminently difcernible 

 Matter ^« through ^ the r^hok Procefs of thefe Trials, 

 that I think no doubt can be made of it. The 

 Mint in the Glafs C was of much the fame 

 Biilk and Weight with thofe in A and B. But 

 the Water^ in which that was, being River- 

 Water, which was apparently ftored more co- 

 pioufly with Terrefirial Matter than the 

 Spring or Rain-Water, wherein they flood, 

 were 3 it had thriven to almoft douhle the Bulk 

 that either of them had 5 and with a lefs Ex- 

 pence of Water too. So likewife the Mint 

 in L,^. 126, in whofe Water was diflblved a 

 fmall quantity of good Garden Mould, tho' 

 it had the Difad vantage (^) to be lefs when 

 lirft fet, than either of the Mints in H, or 1, 

 p. 1 24, 12 5j whofe Water was the very fame 



m Confer, rm.i.ji^ra, ' '^'^^ ^^'^•"'~ • ''"^^ 



''^-"^ with 



