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^ the Glafies dole cover’d for fix Weeks, and often fprinkling 
^ them with Water. From this Way of Management we may 
^ exped them to come up in lefs than two Months Time after 
‘ fowing. And then for their further Improvement, you are 
‘ only to remark, they love Warmth, little Air, a light fandy 
^ Earth, and much Water;; and this laft Hint aniwers to an Ob- 
^ fervation of that great Naturalill; Dr. Sloane, where he tells us 
^ That the Arabians cut artificial Channels from the Riuers^ on purpofe 
^ to nourijh thefe Plants. Thefe Rules being well obferv’d, we 
^ may exped them to bear Fruit in five Years Time from the 
^ putting in of the Seed. 
From his Ne^ Improvements in Planting md Gardening., we 
learn, that ‘ in the Culture of this Plant the Dutch Gardiners 
^ prepare a Soil for it compos’d chiefly of Sand, and the Re- 
^ frelliings they give it with Water are feldom and fparing in the 
^ Winter, but in the Summer it has a more plentiful Allowance, 
^ efpccially during the Time of its Bloflbm. About June they 
*■ take it out of the Houle, and waili and cleanle the Leaves and 
^ Branches, and letting it remain in the Air till the Beginning 
^ of July, they then fet it again in the Confervatory for flower- 
' ing. In April and Augujl they give frelh Earth to the Plants, 
‘ and they thrive extremely. In railing thele Plants from the 
‘ Seeds, they firfl: feparate the Kernels in each Seed, and after 
^ they are clean’d from the Mucilage about them they are imme- 
* diately let two Inches deep in Pots fill’d with landy Soil, and 
^ plung’d into Hot-beds. The Seeds, being thus order’d, mull 
‘ be kept moifl by frequent Sprinklings of Water, till they come 
‘ up, and the Glafles over them always kept dole. About 
‘ fix Weeks after fowing they will begin to appear, and have 
two or three Leaves apiece before Winter. I have heard that 
^ unlels the Seeds are lown as foon as gather’d, they will not 
‘ come up 5 and hitherto there is no other Way known of pro- 
‘ pagating this Plant, but from Seeds : Tho’ I think it would not 
^ be againll Realon to try to inarch it upon fome other Kind of 
‘ Jalmin. 
In the lecond Edition of his Treatife of Coffee, I find nothing 
material added to what we have let down from the firfl: 5 but m 
his Monthly Treatifes he has enlarg’d upon this Subjeef in leveral 
Places : The Sum of all he has laid comes to this. That ^ in 
^ the A'mjlerdam Gardens the Coffee Trees are kept conflantly in 
^ a Glals Cafe, which as near as I can guels, fays he, is about 
^ fifteen Foot long, and about twelve Foot wide 3 the Height 
^ about twenty Foot ; the Front is all Glafs ; under the Floor is 
^ an 
