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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



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and ray neighbours amongft a mixture of thofe two kinds of rh 

 barb, without being previoufly placed or fovvn there. 



Th 



leaf 



ery 



laro-e and pointed, without being palmated, and is a week or 

 forwarder in the fpring than either of the other rhubarbs, and 



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peeled ftalk 



fferted by 



the 



beft poffible of all tarts^ much fup 



raphoatic rhubarb ; and are fo muc 



Ifeurs ia eating to make th 

 • to thofe of tke palmated 



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more valuabl 



as 



they precede by a month the, goofeberry and early apple ; and may 



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be. well propagated by dividing th 



feed in all fummers. See Se6l. IV. 



roots,, as they do not produ 



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3. To be Infer ted at the endqfSe&, X. 4. 9. f. 207. 



Mr. Ruckert planted two beans in pots of equal fize filled with 

 garden-mould*; the one was watered aVmoft daily with diftilled wa- 

 ter, and the other with water impregnated with carbonic acid gas, in 

 the proportion of half a cubic inch to an ouiice of water ; and both 

 of them were expofed to all the iafluence of the atmofphere except^ 

 to the rain». The bean treated with the carbonic acid water appeared 

 above ground nine days fooner than that moiftened with diftilled war 



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ter, and produced' twehty-five beans ;, whereas the other pot pro- 

 duced only fifteen. The fame experiment was made on ftock-july 

 flowers, and other plants with equal fuccefs. An. Chym. 1788, 



4. Tql be infer ted at the end of Se&, X. 7. 7. /^i 22^; 



Befides which the vitriolic acid abounding in many clays, wheii 

 brought into contact with mild calcareous earth,. by the various ope- 

 rations ©f agriculture, muft unite with it, and fet at liberty the car- 



, or a galTeous form beneath the foil - 



which 



bonic acid either, in? a fluid form 



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