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the thickness of a little finger and were now, as they 

 were at their best, about to be cut. Thus they knew here 

 in England how to make use of nearly everything, often 

 of such things as are regarded by us as useless. It has 

 been shown before (p. 382 orig.), how broken bottles 

 and bits of glass can be turned to account, and here it is 

 shown that they also know how to make use of old 

 broken bottle necks. 



[T. I. p. 398.] The 12th May, 1748. 



Fron ligga lange oskadde i jorden. 



Seeds lie long unscathed in the Earth. 



Mr. Miller told me, that in a place where Rhabar- 

 barum verum had stood for ten years he had this season 

 had it moved from thence to another place where no 

 plant of it had grown for ten years ; but now this year 

 where he had had the earth dug up at this place, a new 

 plant had come up from the seeds which had lain there 

 in the earth for so many years, which was now in full 

 flower. Mr. Miller said he had had the same experience 

 with a Fumaria (Fumitory) whose seeds had lain fourteen 

 years in the ground before they had come up. In the 

 case of the Fumaria Mr. Miller mentioned this, that 

 Lobel had made another new species out of Fumaria 

 bulbosa, and had called one of them F. bulbosa viridi flore, 

 which however is only a variety, for if one takes Fumaria 

 bulbosa and buries its bulbs very deep down in the 

 ground, yet so that it can come up, all the flowers come 

 green as Lobel has described it ; but if these bulbs are 

 laid nearer up to the surface of the ground it is then an 

 ordinary Fumaria bulbosa. 



Ugnar i Orangerier. Stoves in Orangeries. 

 The stoves in the Orangeries in Chelsea Apothecaries 



