PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 227 
ni maris contagio excultam, femina foe- 
**cunda producere vidit Camerarius ;” ergo 
the duft of the apices is not neceflary to the 
foecundity of all feeds. Although this tefti- 
mony of Camerarius is beyond all exception ; 
yet, in confirmation of it, and to prevent ca- 
villing, I fhall relate the experiments I made 
_ with the fame plants. 
1. In the Spring 1737, I tranfplanted 
three fets of the common /pinage, long be- 
fore it could be known, whether they were 
_ flowering or feed-bearing plants, from a little 
bed on which they were raifed, into a place 
of the garden, full 80 yards diftant, and al- 
 moft directly South ; there being two haw- 
thorn and three holly hedges, all pretty thick 
| and tall, between them and their feed-bed ; 
and no other /pimage in the garden, nor fo 
near them by far: all the three proved fer- 
tile plants, and ripened plenty of feeds. I 
fowed them, they grew, and profpered as well 
_ as any /pinage feed poffibly could do. ‘This, 
_ Town, made me, at firft, call in queftion the 
fexes of plants, which I formerly too impli- 
wit believed. 
2. Tue fame year, a few plants of the 
¥ ibcaison hemp, a I had raifed for a fpe- 
By ee cimen 
