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me to a 'Cure Method for railing fuch Seeds which have 
hard Coats, or Shells furrounding them } and have 
been judged very difficult, if not impoffible to be raif- 
ed in England. 
In the Tear 17x4 , 1 had a Parcel of frefh Coco-Nuts 
given me, which were brought over from Barbados : 
Part of thefe Nuts I diverted of their outer Coat, or 
Husk, and the other Part I left intire as I received 
them. Both thefe Parcels I planted in large Pots, filled 
with good frefh Earth, and plunged the Pots into a 
Hot-bed made with Tanners-bark ; giving them gen- 
tle and frequent Waterings as the Earth in the rots 
feemed to require } but had not one, out of the whole 
Number, which made any Attempt to fhoot, as I could 
perceive ; and upon taking them out of the Pots, I found 
they were rotten. About four Months after, I received 
another frefh Parcel of Coco-Nuts from Barbados , 
which I treated in another Manner: Part of thefe 1 
cut off the outer Coat or Husk from, and the other 
Part 1 left intire as before : But fuppofing it was owing 
to my planting the other Parcel in ‘Pots, that they did 
not fucceed, I made a frefh Hot-bed (with Horfe-dung ) 
and covered it over with frejb Earth, about 18 Inches 
thick, in which I planted the Nuts: obferving as be- 
fore, to fupply it with convenient Moijlure, as alfo to 
keep the Hot-bed in an equal Temper of Heat (which 
I was guided to do by a Thermometer graduated for 
the Ufe of Hot-beds) j but with all my Care I had 
no better Succefs than before \ not one of the Nuts 
making any Eflfay towards J hooting . The Year fol- 
lowing I had another Parcel of Coco-Nuts given me, 
which, confidering my former ill Succefs, I planted in 
a different Manner, as follows. Having a Hot-bed, 
which 
