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The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



only your vines and fruit-trees, but alfo 

 collyflowers, and many other herbs and 

 plants, de%n*d for culinary ufes, and 

 fuch as muft caufc them to vegete, prof- 

 per and grow extraordinary large, even 

 much beyond the common fize. 

 offomenje- It is Very well known, that brine 

 fmpngmt- i^^de of fait, or fuch as is taken out of 

 e4 -water, the falting-tub where bacon has been 

 ^Irlun"nd^^^^^^' and mix'd with lime, is a very 

 tnakmg ufcful watcr to brinc wheat with, as 

 fruits and the couutry farmer calls it, both as it 

 ear^Znd^ ^^^^^^ it to fwcll and germinate the bet- 

 large, tcr, and as it keeps the wheat from 

 blighting, and makes it grow the larger, 

 and bear the better. But there are o- 

 ther methods for the impregnation of 

 corn for the fame purpofes, which may 

 alfo very well ferve for the fruit and 

 kitchen garden. The firft method is the 

 boiling of fait, falt-peter, chamber-lee 

 and horfepond-water together, as much 

 as the quantity of your corn requires ; 

 and after that is done, put your corn 

 to fteep into it for twenty four hours, 

 covering it clofe, and raifing the liquid 

 full four inches above the grain. 



A fecond fort of water is thus pre- 

 fcrib'd i provide three large old casks^ 



and 



