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part of thefe nuts I divefted of their outward coat or 
hulk, and the other part I left entire, as I received 
them. 
Both thefe parcels I planted in large pots filled with 
good frefh earth, and plunged the pots into hot-beds 
made of tanners bark, giving them gentle and fre- 
quent waterings, as the earth in the pots feemed to 
require; but not one of the whole number had 
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 Cocoa-nuts from Barbadoes, which I treated 
in another manner •, from that part of thefe I cut off 
the outer coat or hulk, and the other part I left en- 
tire, as before : but fuppofing it was owing to my 
planting the other parcel in pots, that they did not 
iucceed, I made a frefh hot-bed with horfe-dung, 
and covered it over with frefh earth about eighteen 
inches thick, in which i planted the nuts, obferving, 
as before, to fupply it with convenient moifture, as 
aifo to keep the hot-bed in an equal temper of heat, 
which I was guided to do by a thermometer, gradu- 
ated for the ufe of hot-beds ; but with all my care, I 
had no better fuccefs than before, not one of the nuts 
making any effay towards (hooting. 
The year following, I had another parcel of Cocoa- 
nuts given me, which, confidering my former ill fuc- 
cefs, I planted in a different manner, as follows : 
Having a hot-bed, which had been lately made with 
tanners bark, and which was filled with pots of ex- 
otic plants, I removed two of the largeft pots, which 
were placed in the middle of the bed ; and, opening 
the tanners bark under the place where the two pots 
flood, I placed the two Cocoa-nuts therein, laying 
them fide-ways, to prevent the moifture (which might 
defcend from the pots) from entering the hole at the 
bafe of the fruit, and thereby rotting the feminal plant 
upon its fir ft germinating. 
I then covered the nuts over with the bark two or 
three inches thick, and placed the two pots over them 
in their former llation. 
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 frefh earth, plunging the pots down 
to the rims in tanners bark, and covering the furface 
of the earth in the pots half an inch with the fame ; 
foon after which, the young fhoots were above two 
inches long, and continued to thrive very well. 
I communicated this method to fome of my ac- 
quaintance, who have tried it with the fame fuccefs ; 
and if the nuts are frefh, fcarce any of them mifcarry. 
This led me to try, if the fame method would fuc- 
ceed as well with other hard-fhelled exotic feeds, 
which I could not, by any method I had before 
tried, get to grow •, as the Bonduck or Nickar-tree, 
the Phafeolus Brafilianus lobis villofis pungentibus, 
Maximus Hermanni, or Horfe-eye Bean, with feve- 
ral others •, and I have found it both a fure and ex- 
peditious way to raife any fort of hard-fhelled fruit 
or feeds. 
For the heat and moifture (which are abfolutely ne- 
ceffary to promote vegetation) they here enjoy in an 
equal and regular manner, the tanners bark (if rightly 
managed) keeping near an equality of heat for three 
months ; and the water which defcends from the pots, 
when they are watered, is by the bark detained from 
being too foon diffipated, which cannot be obtained in 
a common hot-bed, the earth in fuch being worked 
away by the water, and thereby leaving the feeds of- 
ten' deftitute of moifture. 
Some of thefe Seeds I have had fhoot in a fortnight’s 
time, which, I am informed, would not have fo done 
in a month, in their natural foil and climate. 
i have atfo found it an excellent method to reftore 
Orange, or any other exotic trees, which have buf- 
fered by a tedious paffage, in being too long out of 
the ground, by laying their roots and Items in a mo- 
derate tan-bed for three or four days before they are 
planted ; infomuch that I recovered two Orange- 
trees, which had been ten months without either earth, 
or water. 
In the common method of fowing feeds, there are 
many kinds which require to be fown foon after they 
are ripe ; and there are many others which lie in the 
ground a year, fometimes two or three years, before 
the plants come up ; fo that when the feeds which 
come from diftant countries are fown, the ground 
fhould not be difturbed, but wait with patience, in. 
expedition of the plants, at leaft two years ; for it 
has often happened to feeds which I have fown, that 
have been brought from America, that part of them 
have come up the firft feafon, fome the next, and 
others not until the third year *, fo that if the around 
had been difturbed, I fhould have loft many'plants, 
which, by my waiting fo long, came up and fucceeded 
very well. 
As there is fuch difference in the length of time, which 
fome feeds will keep good over others, I thought it 
would not be unacceptable, if I fhould add an ac- 
count of thofe feeds which require to be fown foon af- 
ter they are ripe ; and of others, how long they may 
be kept good, if they are carefully favecf; which I 
have drawn out in the following table, which will, in 
a great meafure, diredt how thofe feeds, which are 
not here included, require to be treated. 
The firft clafs of feeds which I fhall enumerate, is of 
thofe which fhould be fown in autumn, foon after 
they are ripe •, otherwife many of them will not fuc- 
ceed, and others will often remain in the ground a 
whole feafon, if they are kept out of the ground till 
fpring, whereby a full year will be loft. 
Adonis, or Flos Adonis, fee Adonis. 
Alexanders, or Aliffanders, fee Smyrnium.' 
Anemony, or Windflower, fee Anemone. 
Angelica. 
Arfe-fmart the eaftern fort, fee Perficaria. 
Afn-keys, fee Fraxinus. 
Afphodel, or King-fpear, fee Afphodelus. 
Auricula. 
Beech-maft, fee Fagus. 
Bifhop’s-weed, fee Ammi. 
Chriftopher-herb, fee Adltea. 
Ciceli, fee Myrrhis. 
Colchicum, or Baftard-faffron. 
Corn-fallad, fee Valeriana. 
Cornflag, fee Gladiolus. 
Crocus. 
Crown Imperial, fee Fritillaria. 
Fennel-giant, fee Ferula. 
Flower-de-luce, fee Iris. 
Fraxinella, fee Didlamnus. 
Fritillaria, or chequered Tulip. 
Gentian, fee Gentiana. 
Ground Pine, fee Teucrium. 
Hare’s-ear, fee Bupleurum. 
Hartwort, fee Bupleurum and Sefelh 
Hog’s-fennel, fee Peucedanum. 
Hornbeam, fee Carpinus. 
Hyacinth, fee Plyacinthus. 
Juniper, fee Juniperus. 
Laferwort, fee Laferpitiura. 
Lilly, fee Lilium. 
Lilly-afphodel, fee Crinum and Hemerocallis* 
Lilly-hyacinth, fee Scilla. 
Lilly-narciffus, fee Amaryllis. 
Lovage, fee Ligufticum. 
Mandrake, fee Mandragora. 
Maple, fee Acer. 
Mafterwort, fee Imperatoria and Aftrantia, 
Mercury, fee Mercurialis. 
Moly, fee Allium, 
Mufcari. ’ 
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