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L; Tart of a Letter to the ^pMtfher from the Reverend 
Mr Abr. de la Pryme^ gi^tng an ^accomit of fome 
Ohferyations he made c^ncernmg J^egetation. 
SOme have made experiments of the Me-liorating, Fenli- 
zing and Multiplying ot Grain, by fteeping them in di- 
vers Liquors. Dighj fomewhere naenrions a Plant of Barley, 
all/ifing from, one Corn , that by fteeping and v/atering 
with Saltpeter, diffolv'd in Water^ brought. torrh 249 Stalks, 
and above 18000 Grains.. And the lafl: Edition of Ca/^/b- 
den mentions a thing very obfervable, that the Corn fown 
in a Field in Cornwall alter a great Battel in the Civil War 
time, brought forth 4 or 5 Ears on every Stalk. I have try- 
ed fome fuch like Experiments on (everal Grains, and tho ! 
have not been fo happy, as to meet- with that encreafc there- 
in that I expefted, yet as fome of them were diverting to 
me in beholding, and perhaps may be to you in reading, 
fo I will fill this Letter with fome of them, that it may not 
come to you empty. 
Upon the sad of March, i6(^(^. I laid to fteep, 
A Pea, a Barley Corn, and a Wheat Corn, in Brimftone- 
W^ater. 
A Pea, a Wheat, a Barky and an Oat Cora, in Allom Wa- 
ter.< 
APea,a Wheat.a Barley ^and an Oat Corn,iB an old DiiloL 
of Salt ot Tartar. 
A Pea, a Wheat, a Early, and an Oat, in the Cap. Mort.. 
ofSal Arm. diffclved in llrine. 
A Pea, a Wheat, a Barley, and an Oat, in tlie.diflblve of 
%SaIt of Walls. 
A Pea, a Wheat, a Barley, and an Oat^ in the diflb}. of 
Saltpctero 
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