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lofis pungent thus maximus Hermann /, or Horfe-eye 
Bean ; with feveral others *, and I have found it both 
a fure and expeditious Way to raife any Sort of hard - 
Jhell'd Fruit s, or Seeds. For the Heat and Moijlure 
(which are abfolutely necefiary to promote Vegetation) 
they here enjoy in an equal and regular Manner j 
the Tanners-bark (if rightly managed) keeping to near 
an Equality of Heat for fix Months, and the fVater 
which defcends from the Pots, when they are watered, 
is by the Bark detained from being too foon diflipated : 
which cannot be obtained in a common Hot-bed, the 
Earth in fuch being worked away by the Water, and 
thereby leaving the Seeds often deftitute of Moifture. 
Some of thefe Seeds I have had {hoot in a Fortnight’s 
Time \ which I am inform’d, would not have fo done 
in a Month in their native Soil and Climate. I have 
alfo found this to be an excellent Method to reflore 
Orange (or any other exotic) Trees, which have fuf- 
fered by a tedious Pafiage, in being too long out of 
the Ground : Infomuch I recovered two Orange-trees 
which had been ten Months without either Earth or 
Water. If this proves acceptable to you, it will be a 
Pleafure to, 
SIR, 
Tour moft Obedient , 
Humble Servant , 
Philip Miller. 
