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CO demonftrates the foecundating virtue 

 of the male dull ; I anfwer by no means: 

 For Peie Labat does not fay that he tried 

 them ; but, in general, thai the datc-llones 

 of the French iflands would not grow ; 

 anvl it can fcarce be fuppoled there were 

 po males among all their palm trees. Be- 



fides, 



in 5pfa Graecia ulla fit caprificatio. Pomum cap'ificar 

 tufu bonitate inferius eft non c prifioato et infu-ivius. 

 pine illi qui in Graeca ficus venundabant, quo faclius 

 emptores allicerent, wka et yiptm(A iterura atque ite- 

 ruro clamit^re foiebant." And, after expljining the 

 ufe of caprifiration, he adds, " Quare conclu en um, 

 caprificati'^nem in Graecia ob exteraas caufas eff. necef- 

 fari<im, neqii^qu^m ob ficus naturam, cuni alibi pom^ 

 ccquant non caprificata. Eadem etiam de taufa pa'mas 

 in quibur am regionibus efle caprificandas, in aliis mi, 

 rime ; id autem per culiccs fieri, non vero per affe(5lio- 

 uem.quam apices embryonibus communicent, fatis de- 

 monftratum eft " See Anrhol I 2. c. 34. and jj. p. 

 172* &<". Now, fines M Hegardt's Cupid, or Miller doe? ' 

 not go abroad, till well bruftieJ, and freed of the duft ; 

 fince there is no caprification in Italy; and fiiice, this 

 notwithfianding, he and Linnaeus alio affirm, " f icu? 

 in Holiandia quotannis prolici e leminibas, vel fruflu la- 

 Tcrato terrae coromendato, frudfu tamen ill") ex Iialia 

 allato " Amaea Acad. i. p. 233. Exam Epicris p. 

 16, &c ; I leave it to the reader to determine, whether 

 caprification affords an argument tor, or againft the fex- 

 fs gt plaat$. 



