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otherin Urine of Man, otherin Water mixed with Chalk powdred, oth | 
in Water mixed with Soot, other in Water mixed with Afhes.- other in | 
Water mixedwithBay-Salt, otherin Claret Wine, otherin Malmfey, other } 
in Spititof Wine. The proportion of the mixture was, a fourth part of | 
the ingredients tothe Water, fave that there was not of the Salt above an| 
cight part. The Urine, and Winds, and Spiritof Wine, were fimple without | 
mixture of Waters the time of fteeping was twelve hours; thetime ofthe ie 
year Odtober. There was alfo other Wheat fown unfteeped, but watred twice a { 
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day with warm Waters there wasalfo other Wheat fown fimple, to com- | 
pare it with the reft. The event was, that thofe that werein the mixture of | 
Dung, and Urine, Soot, Chalk, Afhes, and Salt, came up within fix days ; | _ 
and thofe thatafterwards proved the highelt, thickeft, and moft lufty, were, | 
firftthe Urine, and then the Dungs ; next the Chalk, next the Soot, hext } 
the Afhes, next the Salt, next the Wheat fimple of it felf unfteeped and | 
| unwatered, next the watered twice aday with warm Water. next the Claret | 
Wine. So that thefe three laft were flower than the ordinary Wheat of it } 
felf; andthis Culture did rather retard than adyance. “As fort ofe that | — 
were fteeped in Maimfey, and Spirit of Wine, they came not upatall, This 
is a rich Experiment for profit; forthe moft of thefteepings are> cheap | 
things, and the goodnefs of the crop is a great matter of gain ; if the | 
goodnefs of the crop anfwer the earlinefs of the coming up, -as it is like it | 
will, both being from thevigor of the Seed ; which alfo partly appeared | 
in the former Experiment, as hath been faid. This Experiment would be | 
tryed inother Grains, Seeds, and Kernels; for itmay be fome fteeping will | 
agree beft with {ome Seeds. It would be alfo tryed with Roots fteeped as | 
before, but forlonger time; itwould be eryed alfo in feveral feafonsof the 
Year, efpecially inthe Spring. ; 1 
Strawberries Watered now and then (asoncein three days) with Water, 1 
wherein hath been fteeped Sheeps-dung, or Pigeons-dung, will prevent and | 
comeearly. And itis like the fame effc& would follow in other Berries, Herbs, | 
| Flowers, Grains, ox Trees; and therefore itis an Experiment, though vulgaria | 
Strawberries, yet not brought into wfe generally : Forit isufual to help the | 
| Ground with Muck, and likewifetorecomfort it fometimes with Muck put | 
tothe Roots, but to water it with Muck-wattr, which is like to be more | 
forcible, isnot pradtifeds = : { iP 
Dung, or Chalk; or Blood, applied in fabftance (feafonably) tothe Roots | 
of Trees; doth ferthem forwards. . Buttodoit unto Herbs, without mixture | 
o{ Water or Earth, it may be thefe helps are too hot. ool s Hel 
The former means of ee Germination, are either by the goodnefs | 
and ftrength of the Nourifhment, or by the comforting and exciting the | 
| Spiritsinthe Plant, to draw the Notrifhmentbetter. And of this latter kinde } 
‘concerning the’comforting of the Spirits of the Plant, are alfo the experi- | 
ment that follow; though they be nor applications to the Root or Seed. | 
The planting of Trees warm upon a Wall, againft the South or South-Eatt } 
| Sun , doth haften their coming on and ripening; and the South-Baft 
is foundro be better than the South-Weft, though the South-Weft be. ne | 
| horter Coat. But the caufe is chiefly , for that the heat of the morning 
fucceedeth the cold of the night; and partly, becaufe (many. times 
| Sourh-Weft Sum is too parching. So likewife planting of them upe 
| Back of a Chimney wherea fireiskept, doth haitentheir coming on, % 
*ripening : Nay more, the'drawing of the Boughs into the infide of 
| room, ‘where a Fire*is continually keprt,, worketh the fame effe& ; wl 
