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From thefe obfervations, lliewing the dole connedlion of the 

 young plant by the ligaments with their multitude of veflels, with 

 that mealy fubllance which we call the feed, it plainly appears, that 

 we cannot take out the young plant from fuch feeds, without 

 ])reaking thofe ligaments and their veflels ; and when they arc 

 broken the young plant is dead, and cannot be removed into any 

 oilier feed ; fo that it feems to me impoffible to remove the young 

 plant from a Chcfnut to a Walnut, and fo to place it that the Chef- 

 nut ihall grow in the Walnut. 



And tliough wc may be able to take out the young plant from 

 the feeds of Afh, J.ime-tree, Goofeberries, Currants, or the like, 

 without breaking the ligaments, or rather without obferving them, 

 vet we mud conlidcr that were there are no lijraments with veflels 

 in them, yet, in fl:ead of them, the globules compofing the mealy 

 fubflancc of the feed are placed in fuch order, and fo clofely united 

 to the beginning young plant, that they either fupply the place of 

 A'eflels, or in reality are veflels, the true fl^rudlure of which is to 

 us infcrutable. Moreover, there will be always a confldcrable dif- 

 ference between the fize of the young plants in dilferent feeds, and 

 confequently the place whence the plant is taken in one feed, will 

 be too fmail or too large to receive the young plant from another. 

 Add to which, that we cannot take out the plant without break- 

 ing the feed, which, by fuch breaking, will become ufelefs. So 

 that it is plain there is no pofllbility of taking the young plant out 

 of one feed, and uniting it with the farina or mealy fubflancc in 

 another. 



I have faid, that feeds contain in them not only the firft rudi- 

 ments or origin of the future plant, but alfo a mealy tubflance, 

 and fome of them an oil ; which mealy fubftance is defigned by 

 Nature to noiirifli and fupport the young plant, until its roots are 

 fo far grown out of the fliell that they can draw nourifliment from 

 the earth. But, upon examining the feeds of the Cotton tree which 



