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order, it is, undoubtedly, for Tome particular rea* 

 fbn, well worthy of inveiligation. 



Thefe fads confirm the diftindion which we 

 have made between the parts and the members of 

 a body ; for in the leaves where this duplicity oc- 

 curs, the vegetative faculty is ufually to be found, 

 which is diffufed over the body of the vegetable 

 itfelf. So that if you carefully replant thofe leaves, 

 and at the proper feafon, you will fee the complete 

 vegetable thence re-produced. Perhaps, it is be- 

 caufe the interior organs of the tree are double, 

 that the principle of vegetative life is diffufed even 

 over it's flips, as we fee it in a great number which 

 fprout again from one branch. Nay, there are 

 fome which have the power of perpetuating them- 

 felvcs by cuttings fimply. Of this we have a noted 

 inflance in the memoirs of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences. Two fiflers, on the death of their mother, 

 became heireflcs of an orange-tree. Each of them 

 infided on having it throv/n into her allotment. 

 At length, after much wrangling, and neither be- 

 ing difpofed to refign her claim, it was fettled that 

 the tree fliould be cleft in two, and each take her 

 half. The orange -tree, accordingly, underwent 

 the judgment pronounced by Solomon on the child. 

 It was cleft afunder ; each of the fiflers replanted 

 her own half, and, wonderful to be told ! the tree, 



which, 



