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=9 E will now enquire of Plants ot Vegetables; and we fhall 
Age i do ic with diligence. Thcy are the principal part of 
svt che Third days Works they are the firt Producat, which 
fot is the word of Animation, for the other words arebut 
the words of Effence ; and they are of excellent and 
generalufz, For Food; Medicine, and a number of AZedi. 
cinal Aris. 
There were fown in a Bed, Turnip feed, Raddifb-feea Wheat, Cucumber-[eed, 
jand Peafe, TheBed we calla Hot-bed, and the manner of itisthis,’ There 
half a foot high, and fupported round abont with Planks; and upon the 
| top was catt fifted Earth, fome two fingers deep; and then the Seed 
| {prinkled upon it, having been fteeped all/might in W ater mixed with Cow- 
|dang. The Turnip-feed, and the VYneat, came up half an inch aboveground, 
| within two days after, without any watering; thereft the third day, The 
Experiment was made in Oéober, and (it may be) intheSpring, the Accele- 
| rating would have been the fpeedier, This is a noble’ Experiment; for, 
. without this help, they would have been four times as long incoming up. 
| But there doth not occur to nie, at this prefent, any ule thereof, for pro- 
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| fit, except it fhould be for Sowing of Pease; which have their price very 
much increafed by the early coming. | 
tics, Strawberries; and other Fruit which are deareft, when they come 
"| early. : % 
There was Wheat fteeped in Water mixed with Cow-dung, other im 
FF other 
It may be tryed alfo with Cher- | 
Water mixed with Horfe-dung, other in Water mixed withPigeon-dung, 
0%. 
401, 
402, 
Experiments | 
in Confort, 
touching the 
Acceleration | 
of Germinasi- 
