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they will not touch all the fummer ; when they 
are apt to grow rank in tafte, and fmell, and 
become ftalky and hard. Thus many people 
eat the nettle in the fpring •, but who could 
bear it afterwards ? Again, becaufe fome kinds 
of animals eat the flower, and will not eat the 
ftalks *, others eat the leaves and will not eat 
the ftalks. N. B. When they eat the leaves, we 
fay in general they eat the plant, otjierwife 
there would be few grafles they could be faid 
to eat. CEcon. Nat. Next, the animals ought 
not to be over hungry, when we make our ex- 
periments, if we intend to make them properly . 
For they will greedily devour moil kinds- of 
plants at fuch a time, which they will abfolutely 
refufe at another. Thus when they come im- 
mediately out of the houfe, they are not fit to 
make experiments upon ; for then they are 
ravenous after every green thing that comes in 
their way. The beft method is to make the 
experiments when their bellies are almoft full, 
for they are hardly ever fo intirely. Moreover 
the plants ought not to be handled by fweaty 
hands ; fome animals will refufe the moft plea- 
ling, and tafteful in that cafe. We ought to 
throw them on the ground, and if we find the 
-animal refufes to eat them, we muft mix them 
with 
