16S 



TABLE. 



Urine, 



Soap and Urine, . 



Salt Pickle, 



Salt and Urine, . 



Water, 



No. of Seeds come up. 



The preparations of seeds for sowing, and the modes of keeping 

 seeds, are matters of great importance, especially as so many nostrums 

 are given for this purpose. The difficulty of importing mulberry-seed 

 from China to this country, so that its vitality shall not be lost, is well 

 known. Very little that has been imported has germinated, and the 

 most serious and vexatious disappointments have been experienced. 

 Great disappointments have occurred with some persons in their seed- 

 corn. I myself was so unfortunate in one case as to lose three bushels 

 of the seed of the Black sea wheat, from which I had with infinite pains 

 picked out all the oats, cockle, and foul stuff, with which it abounded, 

 by hand, fiom the man's having taken it without direction or leave, 

 to be passed through a smut-mill, by which operation, I suppose, the 

 skin of the seed was broken, and its vitality destroyed. The experi- 

 ment above given, is on a very small scale ; and cannot be deemed con- 

 clusive ; but I consider it worth recording; and in the strong hope 

 that it will lead to farther inquiries. 



H. C. 



