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prevailed, be well founded, to wit, that 

 it is the befl: way to obtain new varieties 

 of fine flowers, to plant near together 

 fome of the beft kinds of the fame fpe- 

 cies, differently variegated, and fave their 

 feeds : Reckoning that the dulls of thefe 

 flowers have fuch influence on one ano- 

 ther, that their feed will produce finer 

 varieties, than the feed of the beft of them, 

 would do, if it ftood alone, however o- 

 therwife managed. And, on the fame 

 foundation, it is, that M. Du Hamel's 

 fcheme, for producing new varieties of 

 fruits, is built *. I fay, allowing all this 

 to be faiSt, which I cannot confirm, it 

 feems rather to eftablifh, than to be an 

 objedion againft Mr Tournefort's opi- ,. 

 nion. 



60. For, fince all double flowers are 

 monfters, " Luxuriantes flores (fays Lin- 

 " naeus) nuUi naturales, fed omnes mon- 

 " ftra funt ; pleni eunuchi evaferuEt, pro- 

 " liferi monftroforum augent deforma- 



*' tionem 



* Vld, Mera. acad. an, 1728. 



