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To keep Fruit or Flowers the whole Tear without fpoiling. 
R Salt Petre one pounds Bole Armoniack two pounds^ 
ordinary clean Sand three pounds; mix all together^ and 
olferve this Proportion in greater quantities. 
Then in dry Weather take Fruit of any (brt, that is 
not fuliy Ripe, each with its Stalk , put them in one by 
CDC into an open Glafs, till it be full, and then cover it 
with Oy I'd Cloth clofe ty*d down, then in a dry Cel- 
lar put each of thefe Glafles four Fingers under Ground, 
and fo as that quite round each Glafs, and above and 
below, there may remain two Fingers thick of the ftid 
Mixture. N.iS. That Flowers muft be ufed in the fame 
manner. 
To make Frnit and Flowers grow in the Winter. 
Take up Trees by the Roots in the Spring, juft as they 
put forth their Buds, pnferving feme of their own Earth 
about the Roots. Set them (landing upright in a Cel- 
ler until Michaelmasj then fit them into Venels, with an 
addition of more Earth, and bring them into a Stove, 
taking care to moiften the Earth every Morning with 
Rain- Water, in a quart of which you muft diflblve the 
bignefsof a Walnut, of Salt Armniack^ and about Z.f»^ 
Fruit will appear. 
As to Flowers, take good Earthen Pots, and therein 
Sow your Seed at Michaelmoj^watQrwg it the fame man- 
ner with the like Water, and by Cbriftmoj you will have 
Flowers, as Tulips, Lillies, &c. This and the other may 
be done in a good warm Kitchin, and fuch Days as the 
Sun (hioes, you may fet forth thefe things for fome 
Hours* 
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