The ^raSitcat Kitchen Gardiner. 

 to all the race of vegetable trees, herbs> 



Por as it muft be acknowledged that 

 it is from the two principles of heat 

 and moifture that all life and aftion is 

 given to vegetables in general, fo wa- 

 ter in particular is the well-known vehi- 

 cle, and adive GO-efRcicnt, in this fo 

 wonderful a proeefs 5 for being animat- 

 ed by the heat of the fun, and a kind 

 of fait that lies latent and hid in the 

 earth, thofe agents are as it were fct in- 

 to a ferment, by the powerful force one 

 has upon another, and is the occafioii 

 of thofe beautiful produ6lions that the 

 whole fcene of nature every year dis- 

 plays 5 for that fait (which lies as it were 

 dormant and fluggifh in the earth all the 

 winter) can have no effed of it felf, 

 unlefs diflblved by water, being, as it 

 were, held down, bound, fetter d and 

 chain'd in the ground, and incapable of 

 doing any thing necelTary to any new 

 produdions 5 but when dilToived by wa- 

 ter, and mingled with the terreftrial, 

 fandy and minuter parts of the earthy 

 and then animated by the heat of the 

 fun, difperfes and communicates them, 

 all mix d together, to the roots of herbs 



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