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FOURTH EXPERIMENT. 
On the 30th and 31st of March, I electrified twelve hips of a rose-tree, 
which were taken out of a bundle that for four years had been repeatedly 
sown without effect. I placed them upon the machine, which I charged 
with the electric fluid, along with my servant, from eight in the morning 
until nine at night. 
On the evening of the 31st, 1 put them into a small vessel, containing 
a certain quantity of water. This apparatus, with the necessary communi¬ 
cations, X placed on the above-mentioned machine, which 1 charged every 
hour, during nine days. 
At the same time twelve non-electrified hips were steeped in water, non¬ 
elec trifled, for the same number of days. 
These were afterwards sown in the same mould, similarly exposed in 
every respect, and on the 10th of April, X discovered, in the morning, a plant 
of the rose-tree; some others appeared in the evening; and a fifth came up 
the next day, in the garden-pot containing the electrified hips. But not one 
of the non-electrified hips ever came out of the ground. 
FIFTH EXPERIMENT. 
On the fth of February, I electrified some lupine seeds in three different 
manners: 
1st, By wrapping some up in a sheet of tin, and placing them upon the 
tableau magique. 
2dly, By placing some simply on the tableau magique. 
3dly, By giving other several electrical shocks. 
On the fth, 8th, 0th, and 10th, they were electrified by charging the 
tableau magique at different intervals of time, from morning until evening. 
On the 10th, in the evening, these were sown in pots filled with earth. 
At the same time a similar quantity of non-electrified lupines were also 
sown. 
Before sowing X made use of the following precaution. X watered the 
sifted-mould, and when it had acquired a due consistence X made holes of 
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