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Sect. XVI. 8.4. 



OF 



SEEDS. 



465 



earth has been lately turned over by the plough or fpade, there can 

 be no bad confequence from fownig during rain in general ; but in 

 fome clay grounds much foftened by rain, if feed be put into holes, 

 and a dry feafon fucceeds, an impenetrable crufl: may fupervene by the 

 exhalation of the water, and the fetting, as it is called, of the clay ; 

 but even this could not frequently occur, when feeds are fowu in the 

 moift weather of the autumnal months ; but generally in both cafes 



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the o-rowth of the feed would be forwarded by the rnoifture. 



4. Where the fruit, which furrounds any kind of feeds, can be 

 fowed along with them, it may anfwer fome ufeful purpofe. Thus 

 the fruit of crabs, quinces, and fome hard pears, will lie all the 

 winter uninjured covered only with their autumnal leaves, and will 

 contribute much to nourifh their germinating feeds in the fpring. So 

 the holly-berry and the ivy-berry remain during the winter months 

 uninjured by the rains or frofts, and undevoured by birds or infc^ls, 

 and contribute to nourifh their germinating feeds, when they fall on 

 the ground in the fpring. 

 with them preferves the fweet kernel from the attack of infeds; the 

 fame mufl be the ufe of the acrid oil of the ca(hew-nut. The haw- 

 thorn pofTelTes both a nutritive covering and a hard fhell for the above 



The acrid hulk of walnuts fowed along^ 



purpof( 

 as well 



as 



ind the feeds of rofes are armed with ftifF pointed briftles, 

 furnifhed with a nutritious fruit, fo long known as an 



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agreeable conferve in the (hops of medicine, conferva cynofbati; 

 former conftitutes a defence againft infe£ls, and the latter fupplies a 

 refervoir of nutriment for the germinating feeds. 



5. To this fhould be added, that in our fliort and cold fummers the 

 viviparous buds of fome vegetables are too luxuriant, and do not pro- 

 duce oviparous buds foon enough to ripen their feeds, as melons and 



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:umbers, and many other plants, in thofe feafons which are moifter 



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common 



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believed, that by wafhing the feeds of 



and cucumbers from the faccharine and mucilaginous matter of thei 

 fruit, and by keeping the feed three or four years before it is ufed 



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