Nourishment, than otherwise it would have been. The Properties of Lime are well known; and how apt 'tis to be put into Ferment and Commotion by Water. Nor can such Commotion ever happen when Lime is mix'd with Earth, however hard and clodded that may be, without opening and loosening of it. 4. _The Plant is more or less nourish'd and augmented, in Proportion as the Water, in which it stands, contains a greater or smaller Quantity of proper terrestrial Matter in it._ The Truth of this Proportion is so eminently discernable through the whole Process of these Trials, that I think no doubt can be made of it. The _Mint_ in the Glass C, was of much the same Bulk and Weight with those in A and B. But the Water, in which that was, being River-water, which was apparently stored more copiously with terrestrial Matter, than the Spring or Rain-water, wherein they stood, were; it had thriven to almost double the Bulk that either of them had, and with a less Expence of Water too. So likewise the Mint in L, in whose Water was dissolved a small quantity of good Garden-mould, though it had the disadvantage[8] to be less, when first set, than either of the Mints in H or I, whose Water was the very same with this in L, but had none of that Earth mix'd with it; yet, in a short time the Plant not only overtook, but much out-strip'd those and at the end of the Experiment was very considerably bigger and heavier than either of them. In like manner the _Mint_ in N, though less at the beginning than that in M, being set in that thick, turbid, feculent Water, that remained behind, after that wherein M was placed, was still'd off, had in fine more than double its original weight and bulk; and receiv'd above twice the additional Encrease, than that in M, which stood in the thinner distill'd Water, had done. And, which is not less considerable, had not drawn off half the Quantity of Water that that had.