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quite home to the (ides of the Pot, which will then 
look like a Jelly 5 if there is too much Water, I pour 
it off, till the Wool only appears cover’d or fill’d 
with Water ; then 1 fow the Seed pretty thick, and in 
forty-eight Hours it will begin to chip, and in a 
Fortnight after fowing will be fit to cut for a Sallad. 
I obferv’d from feveral Experiments, that any of 
thefe Plants tranfplanted out of the Earth into W ater 
would not thrive kindly ; but thofe raifed in Water 
may be tranfplanted into Earth, fo that this Method 
of railing Seeds in Water may be of ufe in a dry 
Seafon, to be pricked out into the Earth, though 
they will not come up in fuch a Seafon, if fowed in the 
Ground, yet tranfplanted from Water they will take 
as freely to the Earth as if raifed in it. 
I don’t know but from the foregoing Experiments 
in Water, we may come at a better Way of planting 
in the Earth, efpecially fome Roots, which are apt to 
rot in the Ground, as Anemones , RanuncuJos, and 
Hyacinths : from an Obfervation I have frequently 
made, but never before took notice enough to improve 
it, which is, that I have often feen a Bulb drop’d by 
chance upon the Ground, ftrike out Fibres (tronger 
and more numerous than thofe planted in their ufual 
depth of Earth would do. The ufe I would make of 
this Obfervation , is, that when I plant my Bulbs, I 
take out the Earth of the Bed, I defign to plant, as 
deep as the Bulbs or Roots are to ftand when planted, 
and place my Bulbs on the Surface, till the moifture 
of the Earth (hall have attracted their Fibres, and they 
begin to (hoot up their Plume, and then by degrees 
I cover them over to the thicknefs> of Mould, 
that they (hould ftand in, by which means they will 
be in no danger of rotting after they have got ftrong 
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