“PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 269 
47: One year, obferving two ftrong zu- 
_ lips growing together, in an inclofure fur- 
4 rounded with a tall and thick quickfet baw- 
 thorn-hedge; 1 cut down two or three. more 
tulips, which flood at fome: diftance from 
them, fo as to leave none within that inclo- 
‘i fare, fave the two I mentioned; out of 
 thefe, gently opening the petala, I plucked 
all the famina with their apzces {till intire. 
The confequences of this too rude ca/tration, 
was a confiderable extravafation of the juices, 
in the bottom of the flower, and a fudden 
K decay of the ovarium or fruit, which never 
7 increafed, but turned yellow, fhrunk, and 
withered. In order to difcover whether this 
_ abortion was owing to the wounds, or to the 
_ want of the duft of the apices; I fuffered 
__thefe two tulips to remain in the place where 
- they were: and next Seafon, with the fame 
‘precaution that no other ups fhould flower 
_ within the inclofure, I opened the fefala, 
and took out carefully, not the ffamina, but 
only all the apices ; which prevented any. fen- 
4 fible bleeding of the parts. ‘This more gen- 
+ tle caftration, they bore perfectly well; the 
_ ovarium faffered nothing, in either of them, 
4 but 
