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filings 

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Sect. XIV. 2. 9. 



OF PLANTS. 





9 



There is alfo an experiment in the works of Mr. Auderfon, whici 

 feems to fhew, that common fait poflefles no nutritive quality adapt 



o 



ed to vegetable growth ; and that in fome foils, or to fome V( 

 bles, it would feem not even to a(5l as a flimulus or condiment. Fie 

 marked out a circle of fix feet diameter in the middle of a grafs field, 

 which he diftinguifhed by driving a ftake in the centre ; on this circle 

 he ftrewed common fait, fo as to lie nearly an inch thick on the 



ground 



The grafs fprung up in this circle in the fame m 



in the other parts of the ground, and the place could only be diflin 

 ouifhed by the flake, though it was left there for fome years. Encycl 

 Britan. Art. Agriculture. See Sed. X. 7. 5. of this work. This ex 

 periment is worthy to be repeated, left there might have been fom 



miftake attending it ; 

 with contrary refults 



as fo many auth 



h 



given expenmen 



d 



fome other neutral falts 



(h 



promote vegetation in the experiments of Dr. Home 



9. Some ^ifeafes from external 



have been already men 



d 



Sedion, in which the injury is a remote rather th 



proximate cadfe of the difeafe 

 fap-flow, apd gum-fecretion. 



as in the canker fometiraes. 

 But fome other dileafes from 



dth 



violencehave been purpofely produced, as well as that of eti 

 and turned to advantaoje ; as the bunches of grapes, which h 



quired their full fi 



faid 



pen Iboner, if th 



(lalk 



bunch be cut half through. Tournefort fays, that the fi 



f the 

 Fro- 



nd about Paris ripen fooner. if the buds be wounded with 



flraw dipped 

 are made to 



And laflly, the figs in the ifland of Malt 



ipen fooner by caprificat 



as 



fpoken 



f 



B 



Garden, Vol. II. note on Caprific 



And it may daily be remarked 



that thofe apples and plums ripen fooner, which 



been wound 



ed by in fed 



d that pears 



pe 



fiderably fooner, if they 



be immaturely plucked from the tree, which raufl be efteemed 



J 



to the life of the pear 



d as the converfion of auftere acid 



juices of fruit into fugar in the procefs of ripening may be in partch 



X 



mica] 



