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 Mulberry Trees in Virginia; of a Locust-Tree Bow standing bent six Months without losing its Spring; of a way of improving the planting of Tobacco.

Relations of the Usefulness of changing Seed yearly; oi the steeping, liming, sowing it several Ways; of freeing it from Worms; preserving it long (as eighty Years of freeing it from Smut; of the Causes and first Signs of Smut; of the Instrument and Way of chopping Straw, for the feeding of Horses; of Plants growing in meer Water; of others growing in meer Air; of several Indian Woods; of the growing of the divided Parts of Beans, of the growing of chop'd Stalks of Potatoes; of ordering Melons; of keeping their Seed, and producing extraordinary good ones without Transplanting.

Relations of the Growth, Breeding, Feeding, and Ordering of Oysters; of a Sturgeon kept alive in St. James's-Park; of the moveable Teeth of Pikes; of young Eels cut alive out of the old one's Belly; of the transporting Fish Spawn, and Carps alive from one Place to another; of the strange Increase of Carps so transported; of Snake-Stones and other Antidotes; of Frogs, Frog spawn, Toads, Newts, Vipers, Snakes, Rattle-Snakes.

Relations of several Kinds of Poisons, as that of Maccassar, and Florence; of Craw-fishes; of the Generation, Growth, Life, and Transformation of Ants; of Cheese Worms leaping like Fleas, of living Worms found in the Entrails of Fishes; of Insects found in the sheathing of Ships; of the Generation of Insects out of dead Cantharides; of Insects bred in Men's Teeth, Gums, Flesh, Skin; of great Quantities of Flies living in Winter, tho' frozen; of the Ways of ordering Silk-Worms in France, Italy, Virginia; and of their not being hurt in Virginia by Thunder.

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