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thoroughly ripe. Pound it in a mortar, put it in a glass bottle, perfectly clean, and of the height of the plant: close the bottle well and keep it in a moderate temperature. 2. Expose the pounded seed to the night dew, chusing for this operation an evening when the sky is perfectly clear; spread it upon a large dish that the seeds may be thoroughly impregnated with the vivifying virtue which is in the dew. 3. Spread a large cloth, which must be perfectly clean, in a meadow, stretched out and fastened to four stakes, and with this collect eight pints of the same dew, which you must put in a clean glass bottle. 4. Replace the seed which has been impregnated with the dew in its bottle, before the sun rises, lest the vivifying virtue should evaporate, and place the battle, as before, in a moderate temperature. 5. When you have collected dew enough you must filtre and afterwards distil it, in order that no impurities may remain.