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Earth } by that means rendering it more capable of en- 
tering the Seeds zud Vegetables fet in it, in order to their 
Mourijhnient, than otherwife it would have been. The 
Properties oi Lime are well known:, and how apt 'tis 
to be put mio Jerment 'diiA co?fimotion hy M^ater. Nor 
can fuch' Commotion ever happen when Lime is mix'd 
With Earthy however hard^ ^nd clodded, ih^t may be^, 
without opening and loofening of it, 
4; The Plant is more or lefs nourijh'd and aiigmen ted i?!! 
proportion as the Water in which it^^ands contains a grea- 
ter or fmaller quantity of proper ^rejirial Matter in it. 
The Truth of this Propodtion is lo eminently difcerni- 
blc through the whole Procefs of thefe Tryals^ that I 
think no doubt czn be made of it. The Mint in the Glafs 
C. was of much the fame Bulk and Weight with thofe 
in A. and B. But the Water ^ in which that v^as,, being 
River Water^ which was apparently ftored more copi- 
oufly with terreftrial Matter than the Spring or Rain 
Water ^ wherein flood, were ; it h'^di thriven to al~ 
moft dmble the Bulk that either of them had ; and with 
a lejs Expence of Water too. So like wife the Mint in L. 
in. whole Water yv2i^ diflblved a fmall quantity of good 
Garden Mouldy tho' it had the difadvantage to be lefs \ Confer.. 
when firft fet than either of the Mints in H. or L whofe f ''''-^- ' -^' 
Water was the very fame with this in L, but had none of 
that Earth mix*d with it j yet, in a (hort time the Plant 
not only overtook^ but much out-Jiripp'd thofe, and at 
the end of the Experiment was very confiderably bigger 
and heavier than either of them. In like manner the 
Mint in N. tho' at the beginning thdiVi that in Mo 
being (et in that thick^ turbid^ feculent Water ^ that re- 
mained behind, after /i?^/, wherein M. was placed, was 
Still'd off^ had in fine more than doubled its original weight 
bulk: and received above twice the additional E.n- 
ere aft. 
