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Neverthelefs, the difcriminate planting propofed 

 by my friend will generally apply to the preferva- 

 tion of the original difti action of the fruit; for whe- 

 ther the farina be wafted by the breeze, or winnowed 

 by the wings of infects, it muft be in a contiguity 

 of trees that the alteration mud: arife. 



It is true, that bees, wild and domefticated, with 

 many other infects, infert their bodies within the 

 neftarium of the bloflbm, and that there is a fre- 

 quent adhefion to their downy fides of the impreg- 

 nating dull ; which is not unfrequently conveyed to 

 a various fpecies of bloffom, from that whence 

 it was received. — Still, were it not for the conti- 

 guity of the various trees, no fenfible change would 

 be effected. by the infect becoming an auxiliary to 

 thz/urer impregnation of thofe trees of the genus 

 wifhed to be preferved from depravity. This pre- 

 caution will equally apply to a valuable fpecies ob- 

 tained from feed, or an undegenerated old fpecies 

 to be extended; as the planting either ■, fomewhat 

 remote from other apple-trees, will be certainly out 

 of the flight of the farina, or the probable conveyance 

 of it by infects; which rarely quit a vicinity that 

 fupplies their nutriment, but to depofit their extract 

 in the common repofitory. 



It is a piece of juftice to advert to fome fubfe- 

 quent remarks from my friend, that "no dege- 

 neracy 



