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| a «* other place by the wind, fertilized thefe few 
4 “feeds: that this is not impoffible, we have 
ie ‘a fine inftance in Yovianus Pontanus, precep- 
_ “tor to Alphonfus King of Naples, who, in a 
“« poem, tells us, that in his time, there were 
“ two palm-trees, a male cultivated at Brindes 
“and a female in the woods of Otranto, which. 
‘carried no fruit for many years. But at 
*« length being clevated above the other trees 
“of. the foreft, fo that it could fee the male 
* palm-tree of Brundufium, it then began to 
** bear good fruit.in abundance. No doubt, 
i *‘ becanfe then it began to. receive the duft 
of the flamina, carried by the. wind from 
«the male Palm-tree, over the other trees of 
_ «the wood (y).”. A very fine ftory indeed! 
= - I suact only further obferve, concerning 
this ‘learned author, that tho’. he has added 
nothing new, of confequence, on this fubject, 
yet he feems to claim the honour of being 
_ the inventor of all; for after giving his con- 
- jetures, with relation to the. manner how 
sduft impregnates the feed, and as his 
| too, tho’ the one be Grew’s and the o- 
ther Morland’s, he thus concludes, 
eric th a sf Bug 
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