Sect. I. Agriculture and Vegetation. 117 



Cor. I can hardly fay whether the foil 

 was the better or the worfe for the mixture : 

 for, on one hand, only one of the feeds took 

 effect y and on the other, that plant was in 

 a more thriving ftate than any plant in the 

 plain earth. This, however, appears plain, 

 that it had not the bad effects of the ipirit 

 of nitre and quick-lime in the former expe- 

 riment. Was this owing to the lime being 

 quick in the former, and effete in the latter 

 cafe ? or to a fmaller quantity of the mix- 

 ture being ufed ? I raiher incline to the 

 latter opinion, as the mixtures appear to be 

 fimilar by experiment. 



THAT I might difcover the effects of the 

 fame folution on rich garden mould, 



Exp. 34. July 14, 1756, I filled two 

 pots with 5 Ib. each of that foil j fowed 

 four grains of barley in each, and watered 

 N i . with the fame quantity of the fame 

 folution uied in the foregoing experiment. 

 July 20. three plants have appeared in each 

 13 pot; 



