Excerpt from Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds From Foreign Parts, for the Benefit of Our American Colonies: With an Account of the Garden at St. Vincent, Under the Care of Dr. George Young A further confirmation of the danger of expofing feeds to the air, and not fowing them direc'tly when opened, will appear fi'om the following extra???'r of a letter from Fort Marlborough, in Sumatra, dated March the sth, 1771, to a gentleman in Lon don, who was fo kind as to communicate it to me. The Grafs ...
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Excerpt from Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds From Foreign Parts, for the Benefit of Our American Colonies: With an Account of the Garden at St. Vincent, Under the Care of Dr. George Young A further confirmation of the danger of expofing feeds to the air, and not fowing them direc'tly when opened, will appear fi'om the following extra???'r of a letter from Fort Marlborough, in Sumatra, dated March the sth, 1771, to a gentleman in Lon don, who was fo kind as to communicate it to me. The Grafs-feeds that you fent me in bottles (fuch as red and white Clover, Trefoil, Lucerne, See.) I planted immediately a, little Of each; thefe grew extremely well. A few days after I fowed fbme more in a different lbil, and only a few vegetated and fell Off immediately. I then thought it was owing to the foil, and directly planted the remainder in the firfi foil, but not one ever mwed itfelf, which muft be owing to the air let in upon them. This parcel was put up with Guinea pepper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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