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them ftronger than when they were planted, and if 
they be dried at the proper Seafon, will produce a 
fecond Year as well as frefb ones. 
I planted likewife Ranunculos and Anemone Roots , 
which grew and fnot up the Steins of their Flowers 
very ftrong, but the Buds of the Flowers were blaft. 
ed, which I am apt to think happened from their 
being crowded too much, having no convenience to give 
them free Air enough. 
I alfo planted Auriculas and Pinks, the Pinks 
flowered, but the Auriculas were not ftrong enough ; 
they are (till both of'them growing, and I am in ex- 
pectation they will blow the next Seafon. 
I have tried alfo feveral Shrubs, as Rofes, Jaf- 
mines , and Honyfuckles ; which all grew, and ftruck 
out frelh Fibres, and th t Rofe-tree made fix ftrong 
Buds for Bloflbms, but accidently fetting them out 
in a hot Sun-lhiny day in April , they were all fcorch'd 
up, that they came to nothing; I obferv’d, that 
ftrong Suckers cut ofF two or three Inches under 
ground, without any’ Fibres, grew the beft. 
By another Experiment, I was willing to try 
what the Succulent Plants would do in this way j I 
took a Leaf of the Opuntia or Indian Fig , and laid 
it by to dry for three Weeks or a Month, till it had 
loft all its moifture, and was nothing but a dryed 
Skin ; I then planted it in Water in the beginning of 
July, and tied it to a Stick that was fixed in one of 
my Leads, and filled the Pot fo, that the Bottom of 
the Leaf was a quarter of an Inch in the Water ; 
in about a Month’s time the Leaf fill’d, ftruck out 
Fibres, and put forth a frelh Leaf, which is now 
growing, and has made as much progrefs as fuch a 
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