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sun ; or, near a fire in a dry room ; and, when 

 quite dry, should be put into bags, and hung up 

 against a very dry wall, or dry boards, where 

 they will by no accident get damp,. The best 

 place is some room, or place, where there is, 

 occasionally at leat, &Jire kept in winter. 



150. Thus preserved, kept from often air and 

 from damfi, the seeds of -vegetables will keep 

 sound and good for sowing for the number of years 

 stated in the following list; to which the reader 

 will particularly attend. Some of the seeds in 

 this list will keep, sometimes, a year longer, if 

 very well saved and very well preserved, and es- 

 pecially if closely kept from exposure to the open 

 air. But, to lose a crofi from unsoundness of 

 seed is a sad thing, and, it is indeed, negligence 

 wholly inexcusable to sow seed of the sound- 

 ness of which we are not certain. 



