(945) 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Mmb 25. 
For the Month of (^arch, 1678. 
The Contents, 
J Relation of the Culture ^ or PUnting md Ordering of 
' Saffron; iy the Honourable Charles Howard, Efpire. 
An Account of the TiXi-Mines in Cornwall j by Dr^Chri- * 
s ftopher Merret. Experiments of the Refimng <?/ Gold ^ 
with Antimony 5 by Dr^ Jonathan Goddard. J Rela- 
tion of A monjlrous Birth \ by Dr, S. Morris of Petworth. 
jfn Account of three Books: L T/&^ K^y^/ Pharmacopaea 5 
MofesCharras , (French) Kings Chief Operator 
in his Royal Garden of Plants. If. Decameron Phyfio- 
iogicum; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbiiry. III. u4n 
Account of Mr, Jofeph Moxon's Undertaking and Effays^ 
in the Hiftory of Handy crafts^ 
\4n Jccount of the Culture , or Planting and Ordering of 
Saffron 1 by the Honourable Charles Howard, Efquire. 
Sijfr<?»- heads planted in a black rich Sandy Mold^ or in 
a mixtSandy Land, between white and red, yields the 
greater ftoreof Saffron. 
A Clay or Stiff-Aground , be it never fo rich , produceth 
\\it\t Saffron though increafe of Heads orRoots^ if the 
Winter prove mild and dry: but the extremity of cold 
and moifture will rot them* So that the fincft light Sandy 
Mold, of an indifferent fatdefs is efleemed moft profitable. 
6 I Plough 
