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water in capillary tubes from the addition of the electric fluid, and the faster 
flow of the blood in the animated body, instituted some expeiiments on plants. 
EXPERIMENT FIRST. 
He took garden-pots, and filled them with the same kind of earth, and 
sowed them with the same kind of seed. 
He kept them constantly in the same place, and the same position as to 
light, and gave each the same quantity of water: but one was electrified daily 
from two to three, and sometimes four hours, a day. 
The consequence was, the electrified pot shewed its germs by three days 
sooner than the other . It had longer shoots in a given time, and looked 
more vigorous withal. 
The Abbe Berthollon next drew the attention of the learned world to this 
subject, and having opened the glorious career, many other philosophers fol¬ 
lowed the same path, among whom the L’Abbe D’Ormoy’s Experiments 
seem the most conclusive. 
SECOND AND THIRD EXPERIMENTS. 
On the 21st of March, 1/88, I electrified, says the Abbe D’Ormoy, during 
the space of twelve hours, a magic hoard \ recharging it successively, when 
the electricity was diminished. Upon this machine, the surface of which 
was covered, about a foot and a half square with the tin, I put twelve grains 
of the small Radishes and twenty grains of Lettuce. 
These electrified seeds were sown on the same hour of the day, with the 
like quantity of the same seeds not electrified, taken out of the same parcels, 
and sown on the same mould; they were covered exactly with the same pro¬ 
portion of earth, placed in the same exposition to the sun, air, and light, and 
in every respect were treated alike. 
March 2/th, every one of the twelve electrified grains of Radishes ap- 
peared. 
MTiereas at noon on the 28th, nine only of the non-electrified began to 
make their appearance. 
March 30th, I saw, at five in the morning, all the electrified Lettuce, which 
announced their having sprouted out during the night. 
