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The Fruit-GarpdeEn IMuftrated. 
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Of the Moifture contained in the Earth, for the Produétion 
| and Support of Plants. 
sien || S Light Is imperfect when deprived of any one of the feve- 
1A eel ral Colours, of which ’tis compofed, which the Prifm exhibits ; 
fo likewife are Vegetables imperfect, when any one of their 
‘Principles is wanting. And ‘tis very probable, when that moft neceflary 
Principle, WATER, is wanting, that the Principles of Volatile Salt, and 
Sulphur, are alfo wanting. For ‘tis mote reafonable to believe that they 
are contain'd in Water, rather than in Earth. | 
ucmany Vegetab 
“the Reafon of this is, That theve is a Kind of Salt in the Earth, 
‘ avhich animates and fets it upon Aétion. 
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“ NOW this Salt can have no Influence unlefs it be diffolved, for 
whilft it ts, as it were, fetter’d to the Earth, and ferves to compofé 
the fame Mafs with st, it’s uncapable of doing any thing neceffary to 
“ a new Produttion ; but when the Water has diffolved ‘the Salt, and 
"mingled it with the Parts of the Earth, the Pavts thus animated, 
Separate and communicate themfélwes to the Root of the Plants that 
“ receive their Nouvifhment from them.” | 
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