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tries, but pofitively forbids the re-produ6lion to 

 proceed, in order to preferve the primitive fpecies, 

 which are of more general utiHty. 



It is eafy to difcern, in mofl of her works, thefe 

 maternal condefcenfions, and, may I call them fo? 

 regal provifions. They manifefl themfelves parti- 

 cularly in the produftions of the garden. We find 

 them in thofe of our flowers which have a profu- 

 sion of corolla, as in the double rofe, which is not 

 reproduced by feeds, and which, for this reafon, 

 certain Botanifls have dared to brand with the 

 name of monder, though it be the fineft of flowers, 

 in the eftimation of all perfons of tafte and fenfi- 

 bility. Naturalifls pretend, that it deviated from 

 the laws of Nature, becaufe it fcorned to conform 

 to their Syltems : as if the firft of laws, which go- 

 verns the World, had not for it's objed the hap- 

 pinefs of Man ! But if rofes, and other flowers, 

 which have a fuperabundance of corolla, are mon- 

 gers, fruits which have a fuperabundance of pulpy 

 flefh, and fugary paftes, of no ufe toward the ex- 

 panlion of their feeds, fuch as apples, pears, me- 

 lons, and fruits which have no feeds at all, as the 

 pine-apple, the banana, the bread-fruit, all thefe 

 muft likewife be monflers. The roots which be- 

 come fo plump in our kitchen-gardens, and which 

 are converted into large balls, into fucculent 

 glands, into bulbs farinaceous, and of no effedt 



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