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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XVL 7. 6, 



tain, and depends much upon how they are kept ; thofe of cucum- 

 bers and melons are good a long time, becaufe very carefully pre 

 ferved. 



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Peas and beans will germinate very well at feven years of 



are not 



but the feeds of lettuces and kidney-beans, and fome oth 



to be depended upon after a year or two ; and generally fpeaking the 



fmaller feeds are of the leaft duration." Marfliall on Gardening. 



6. Where feeds of a perifhable nature are to be carried to, or brought 

 from, diflant countries, I fufped that covering them in fugar would 

 be the moft certain and falutary method of preferving them • and 



that flefh meat cut into thin flices, a|id covered with fu 



or 



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fyrup, or treacle, would be better preferved than in brine, and afford 

 a mijch more falutary nourifhment to our failors. 



Since I wrote the above I have feen a paper in the Tranfadions of 

 the Society of Arts, Vol. XVI. from Mr. Sneyde of Belmont in Staf- 

 fordfhire, who having obfervedfome feeds, which came accidentally 



to grow readily, direfted many feeds to be fent from 

 the Weft Indies covered with raifins, and others in fugar, and others 

 in the ufual manner of fending them, and found, that thofe im- 

 merfed in fugar or covered with raifins both looked well, and grew 

 readily ; whereas many of the others would not vegetate. 



Since the powder of frefh burnt charcoal is know'ii fo powerfully 



anqioneft raifins 



to 



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bforb all putrid vapo 



covered 



th 



harcoal duft. w 



probable the feeds mixed with and 



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long expofed to th 



been 



ently b 



might be fuccefsfully employed for the pi 



fervation of feeds either in long voyages, or in domeftic ^ 



VIII. I. rofow feeds advantageoujly it is probable, that tlofe of c 

 tive plants might be fuffered to drop on the furface of the earth 



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as they fall from th 



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bute 



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deciduous leaves ; in which fituation their fruit mio-ht 



covered only by 



fli them 



contri 



crabs and fl 



he acrid hulk of th 



defend them from 



walnut ; or from bird 



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the hard 

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