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Waterings, as the Earth in the Pots 

 feem'd to require ; but not one out 

 ©f the whole Number had made any 

 Attempt to fboot, as I could per- 

 ceive ; and upon taking them out of 

 the Pots, I found they were rotten. 



About four Months after, I re- 

 ceived another frefh Parcel of Co- 

 coa - nuts from Barbados, which I 

 treated in another manner : from 

 Part of thefe I cut off the outer Coat 

 or Hufk, and the other Part I left 

 intire, as before : but fuppofing it 

 was owing to my planting the other 

 Parcel in Pots, that they did not 

 fucceed, I made a frefh Hot-bed, 

 •with Horfe-dung, and covered it 

 over with frefh Earth about eighteen 

 Indies thick, in which I planted the 

 Nuts; obferving, as before, to fup- 

 ply it with convenient Moifture, as 

 alio to keep the Hot-bed in an equal 

 Temper of Heat, which I was gui- 

 ded to do by a Thermometer, gra- 

 duated for the Ufe of Hot-beds ; but, 

 with all my Care, I had no better 

 Succefs than before, not one of the 

 Nuts making anEffay towards moot- 

 ing. 



The Year following, I had ano- 

 ther Parcel of Cocoa-nuts given me, 

 which, confideiing my former ill 

 Succefs, I planted in a different man- 

 ner, as follows : 



Having an Hot-bed, which had 

 been lately made with Tanners 

 Bark, and which was fiii'd with Pots 

 of Exotic Plants, I remov'd two of 

 the largeft Pots, which were plac'd 

 in the Middle of the Bed ; and, open- 

 ing the Tanners Bark under the 

 Place where the two Pots Hood, I 

 plac'd the two Cocoa-nuts therein, 

 laying them fide-ways, to prevent 

 the Moiiture (which might defcend 

 from the Pots) from entering the 

 Hole at the % Bale of the Fru.t, and 

 thereby rotting the feminal Plant 

 upon its nrlt germinating. 



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I then cover'd the Nuts over with 

 the Bark two or three Inches thick, 

 and plac'd the two Pots over them in 

 their former Station. 



In this Place I let the Nuts re- 

 main for fix Weeks; v/hen remove- 

 ing the two Pots, and uncovering 

 the Nuts, I found them both (hot 

 from the Hole in the Bale of the 

 Fruit an Inch in Length ; and from 

 the other End of the Fruit were fe- 

 veral Fibres emitted two or three 

 Inches in Length. 



Upon finding them in fuch a For- 

 wardnefs, I took them out of the 

 Bark, and planted them in large 

 Pots filled with good frefh Earth ; 

 plunging the Pots down to the Rims 

 in Tanners Bark, and covering the 

 Surface of the Earth in the Pots half 

 an Inch with the fame ; foon after 

 which, the young Shoots were above 

 two Inches long, and continued to 

 thrive very well. 



I communicated this Method to 

 fome of my Acquaintance, who have 

 tried it with the fame Succefs ; and 

 if the Nuts are frefh, fcarce any of 

 them mifcarry. 



This led me to try, if the fame 

 Method would fucceed as well with 

 Other hard - fhelPd Exotic Seeds ; 

 which 1 could not, by any Method 

 I had before tried, get to grow ; as 

 the Bonduc or Nickar tree, the Abrus 

 or Wild Liquorice, the Pbafeolus 

 Bra fill 'art us /obis c villoJis pu?igentibus i 

 Maximus Hermamii, or Horfe-eye 

 Bean, with feveral others ; and I 

 have found it both a fure and expe- 

 ditious Way to raife any Sort of 

 hard-mell'd Fruits or Seeds. 



For the Heat and Moifture (which 

 are abfolutcly neceflary to promote 

 Vegetation) they here enjoy in an 

 equal and regular manner, the Tan- 

 ners Bark (if rightly manag'd) keep- 

 ing near an P.quality of Heat for 

 three Months and the Water which 

 deicends 



