256 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
Linnaeus (t). Neither Theopbraftus, Pliny, nor 
Kaempfer, relate the culture of palm-trees, as 
from their proper knowledge; and are 
contradicted by an eye witnefs, Pere Labat. 
As for the culture of pi/tacia in the Archi- 
_ pelago, for which Tournefort is alledged, I 
cannot find any fuch thing in his works. 
Such a culture, indeed, is mentioned by the 
editor of M. Geoffroy’s Materia Medica (u), 
as practifed in Szcz/y: but he neither fays he 
was in that ifland himfelf, nor tells us who 
informed him. However, if fuch is the cul- 
ture of the piffacia, either in Sicily or the 
Archipelago, it feems to be very modern, and 
founded on the imaginary impregnating vir- 
tue of the duft of the apices; and no 
doubt, the zerebinthus will foon be treated the 
fame way, it can do no harm; tho’ it is. 
not very probable, that defictente tali impreg- 
natione fiudus abortiant in this tree, more 
than in the palm-tree. 
37. CONCERNING caprifieation, if you con- 
fult Theopbraftus (x), Pliny (y), and Tourne- 
fort 
(t) Phil. bot. p. 92. 
(z) Tom. 2. p. 417. 
(x) De cauf. pl. 1. 2. c. 12+ 
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