of EARTH, &C.

sent Use, till it be perfectly diluted, which is a Caution indifpenfibly.necessary, whenever you would apply such powerful Affusions, left ifdeftroy and burn up, instead of curing and enriching. Another takeas follows:

Rain-water of the Equinox, q. s. boil’d with store of A Teats-dung,till it be very strong of it^ dissolve one Pound of Saltpetre in everyPottle of Water; whilst this is a little tepid, macerate your Seeds fortwenty-four Hours, dry them gently, rather with a Cloth than bythe Fire; sow in the barrenest Earth, or water Fruit-trees with it, forprodigious Effects. Or thus:

Take two Quarts of the same Water, Neats-dung, as before, boil dto the Consumption of half; strain it, casting into the Percolation twoKandfuls of Bay-salt, and of Saltpetre ana. Another:

Take Rain-water, which has stood till putrified, add to it Neats,*Pigeon or She eps-dung, expose it for Insolation a Week or ten Days,then pass it through a coarse Strainer, infuse more of the fame Soil,and let it stand in the Sun a Week longer, strain it a second Time,add to it Common Salt , and a little Oxes Gall , 6Cc. Another:

Take Quick-lime, Sheeps-dung at Discretion, put into Rain-waterfour Fingers eminent; to ten Pints of this Liquor, add one of jdqua-vita, macerate your Seeds, or water with it any lean Earth, where youWould plant for wonderful Effects.

Infuse three Pounds of the best Indian Nitre in fifteen Gallonsof Water, irrigate your barren Mould; st was successfully try’d amongstTulips and Bulbs, where the Earth should by no means ( as we havesaid) be fore’d by Compass, But a gentler than either, is,

A Dilution of Milk with Rain-water, sprinkled upon unslack’dTime, first sifted on your Beds, and so after every watering the Limerepeated.

These, with divers more which I might fuperadd, not taken andtranscrib’d out of common Receipt-Books , and such as preterid to Se-crets, but most of them experimented, I thought fit to mention ; thatupon repetition of Tryals, the Curious might satisfy themselves, andas they have Opportunity improve them, whilst perhaps, as to Irri-gations, less exalted Liquors were more natural. And what if Essayswere made of Liquors per Lixivium, the Plant redue’d to Ashes;might it not be more connatural, since we find by more frequent Try-al, that the burning os Stubble before the Rains descend on it, im-pregnates Ground by the dissolution of its fpermatick Salts? I onlyname the naked Rhlegm of Riants distill’d either to Use alone, or ex-tract the former Salt; but I say, I only mention them for the Curi-xious to examine, and ex abundanti. For certainly (to return a little,and speak freely my Thoughts concerning them ) most exalted Men-strua, and ( as they dignify them with a great Name ) Ejfentiated Spi-rits • I fay, all hasty Motions, and extraordinary Fermentations ,though indeed they may give possibly sudden Rise, and seemingly ex-balt the present Vigor of Riants , are as pernicious to them as Brandy^nd Hot-waters are to Men; and therefore where-ever these ardent Spi-rits are apply’d, they should be poured at convenient Distances fromany part of the Riant, that the Virtue may be conveyed throughsome better qualified Medium. But when all is done, Watersmoderately impregnated and imbodied with honest Composts, and

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