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which had been lately made with Tanners-bark , 
and which was filled with Pots of exotic Plants, I 
removed two of the largeft Pots, which were placed in 
the Middle of the Bed, and opening the Tanner s-b ark 
under the Place where the two Pots flood, I placed the 
two Coco-Nuts therein, laying them Side-ways, to pre- 
vent the Motfiure (which might defcend from the 
Pots) from entring the Hole at the Bafe of the Fruit, 
and thereby rot the feminal Plant upon its firfl ger- 
minating. I then covered the Nuts over with the 
Bark two or three Inches thick, and placed the two 
Pots over them in their former Station. In this Place 
I let the Nuts remain for fix Weeks ^ when removing 
the two Pots, and uncovering the Nuts, I found them 
both fhot from the Hole in the Bafe of the Fruit, an 
Inch in Length ; and from the other End of the Fruit 
were feveral Fibres emitted two or three Inches in 
Length. Upon finding them in fuch a Forwardnefs, I 
took them out of the Bark , and planted them in large 
Pots, filled with good fre/h Earth , plunging the Pots 
down to their Rims in the Tanner s-b ark, and cover- 
ing the Surface of the Earth in the Pots half an Inch 
thick with the fame: Soon after which the young 
Shoots were above two Inches long, and continued to- 
thrive very well. I have communicated this Method 
fince to fome of my Acquaintance, who have tried 
it with the fame Succefs j and if the Nuts are frefh, 
fcarce any of them mifcarry. This led me to try if 
the fame Method would fucceed as well with other 
hard-Jhell'd , exotic Seeds , which I could not, by any 
Method I had before tried, get to grow, as the Bon - 
due, or Nickar-Tree ; the Abrus , op Wild Liquo- 
rice ; the Thafeolus Brafilianus frutefeens lobis vil- 
lofis 
