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Of Vegetation. 



new fct fruit may in that ftate be looked 

 upon as a compleat egg of the tree, con- 

 taining its young unhatched tree, yet in em- 

 brio) then the blolTom falls off, leaving this 

 new formed egg, or firft fet fruit in this infant 

 ftate, to imbibe nourilhment fufficient for, 

 it felf, and the Foetus with which it is im- 

 pregnated : Which nourilhment is brought 

 within the reach and power of its futtion 

 by the adjoyning leaves. 



If I may be allowed to indulge conje&ure 

 in a cafe, in which the moft diligent in- 

 quirers are as yet, after all their laudable re- 

 fearches, advanced but little farther than 

 meer conjecture, I would propofe it to their 

 confederation, whether from the manifeft 

 proof we have that fulphur ftrongly attracts 

 air, a hint may not be taken, to confider 

 whether this may not be the primary ufe of 

 the Farina fcecundans, to attract and unite 

 with it felf elaftick or other refined a&ive 

 particles. That this Farina abounds with 

 fulphur, and that a very refined fort, is pro. 

 bable from the fubtile oil which chymifts 

 obtain from the chives of faffron. And if this 

 be the ufe of it, was it poflible that it could 



be more aptly placed for thepurpofe on very 



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