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In like manner, where it can be pro- 

 cured, the putting of fea-fand, oyfter 

 and other fea-fliells beat and ftamp'd to 

 powder, the refufe of fea-weeds, or a- 

 ny other marine herbs or roots, abound- 

 ing, as they are, with faline and nitrous 

 particles, what proof is there that may 

 not be expeded from the broccoli, bore- 

 coicy and others of the fea-kele kind, 

 when thus planted, and when well wa* 

 tered with water where faltpeter and o- 

 ther nitrous things have been infufed ? 



Nor need I but juil: remind my reader 

 of the breaking the largeft leaves to co- 

 ver the flower, and preferve it from the 

 rains and wet weather, which is apt to 

 fpoil them 5 nor as to the preferving 

 them in the winter, by caufing a cover 

 of reed, made in the nature of a bee- 

 hive, or (which indeed is fomething more 

 charge) a bee- hive it felf, which will pre- 

 ferve both collyflowers and cabbage much 

 the longer. 



The taking them up^ juft as they be- 

 gin to button, and planting them, earth 

 and all, in a bed in an old warm green- 

 houfe, where the fun may come to them 

 to make them grow, is a French, but 

 yet a very good method : And the fame 



may 



