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falts was difcoverable. Thefe obfervations were in the winter, when 

 the weather was not favourable for i'licli enquiries ; but, liad they 

 been made in a milder feaibn of the y<-"'ii"> I doubt not, that the falts 

 would have been formed more fpeedily, and in greater plent3^ 



I think it might be wortii while, in the fummer-tim.e, to cxamins 

 the flowers and bloflbrns of various trees, particularly thofe, of which 

 bees appear the fondeft, by which examination it might perhaps be 

 dilbovered, what kind of fubftance, if any, and of what qualities or 

 properties, ilTues froin fuch flov/ers, and adheres to their I'urfaces. 



Atone time, in tlie month of Ociober, I was informed by a IIoj) 

 Faitor, tliat the Hops in tliat year, were of an excellent quality, 

 whereupon I procured fome of the feed pods, of that year's growth. 

 Upon exainination, I found each of thefe feed pods to contain thirty 

 or even forty feeds. When I had ftripped the feeds of the fmall 

 leaves or integuments furrounding them, I obferved, that the young 

 plants within them contained, in proportion to their fize, abundance 

 of oil.- I farther noted, what I have already mentioned, that each 

 young plant had two leaves, and thefe in proportion to the minute- 

 nefs of the plant, were remarkably long. Thefe leaves lay in each 

 feed compared and twined together, much like the fpiral folds in the 

 fliell of a fnail ; and, when I laid open the folds, I faw within them. 

 Hill more leaves, but excellively minute, and v\ hich indeed, I could 

 not difcover in all the feeds. From hence it appears, that the feeds 

 of the Hop differ from molt of the larger fort of feeds, and do not 

 contain in tliem any fiibftance to nouriih the young plant, v.-hich 

 p\mt therefore is more perfectly formed than that in the ku-ger feed 

 of the Chefnut. 



As to thofe beautiful globules which I have before mentioned to 

 have obferved, thofe, in this fpecimcn of the Hep, were dried, and 

 rather fhrivelled. Having broken them, I put them into a glafs, and 

 breathed on them Vvith mv varm breath tv>o or three times, where- 



