The Fruit-GarveEn_ Jduftrated. 
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2] T is well known to Chymifts that Vegetables are compofed of 
Five Principles, viz. Sulphur, Volatile Salt, Water, Air, and 
at so} Earth, and fince that their Nourifhment is in greateft Part com- 
municated to them at their Roots, ‘tis very reafonable to believe, that 
when the Earth is capable of nourifhing and fupporting the Growth of 
Plants, fhe is then. furnifhed with fufficient Quantities of the Firft Four 
Renripie, mend Sulphur, Volatile Sale, Water, and Air. 
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BY the er Chapter it appears, that the more or t lefs Gann 
of oily Juices Earths are mixed with, fo are they more or lefs capable 
of Sepang Water, Air, Ci: For Sand and light Loams, will imbibe 
‘ith greater Velocity th a Clay and very dtroog. Loame 
For the Firft having Ii hiccle or no oully Parcel _ hoe B 
mit of a free Entrance ; but the Clay and ftrong Loams, ane great 
Quantities thereof, refift the Water's free Paflage therein. 
NOW, as Earths are differently ftored with thefe oily Particles,.fo are 
they more or lefs furnifhed with each of ‘the aforefaid Principles: Which 
feems to bea wife Order of Nature. For as Vegetables are differently 
compofed of their Principles, fo are the feveral Kinds of Earths furnifhed 
therewith, whereby Nature has adapted every Plant to its proper Soil, 
wherein ‘twill thrive beft. 7 
SUPPOSE an Oak to be compofed of equal Principles, viz. one 
Fifth of Volatile Salt, one Fifth of Sulphur, one Fifth. oh Water, one 
Fifth of Air, and one Fifth of Earth ; ‘ghia 
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