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mate acquaintance, to whom I communi- 

 cated the fecret, for then I had no thoughts 

 of making it public, have all tried it, and 

 found it anfwer. Some of them, at a dif- 

 tance, have informed me fo by letter. 



I MADE an experiment at Sir Thomas 

 Gafcoigne's, Bart, when I came to the 

 place, May-day, 1771. The fruiting- 

 plants were juft miffed into frefh heat, 

 and the younger plants into larger pots: 

 they had been cleaned before they were. 

 plunged, but there were many infects all 

 round the bottom leaves. I applied the 

 remedy ; they went off infentibly, and 

 there have been none in Sir Thomas's 

 hpt-houfes fince, 



I ALSO tried another experiment, which 

 is a convincing proof that none of thofe 

 infects will live where this remedy is ufed, 

 S;r Thomas had a quantity of plants (iu 

 1772) from abroad, crowns and fuckers, 

 which were very full of vermin. I ap- 

 plied the remedy without cleaning, and 

 planted them in the middle of the hot- 



houfe 



