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tion, or forced circumvolution, which 

 might render them ftrongly rooted, and 

 ftraightcr, were a Criticifme in Agri 

 culture, And nature leems to have 

 made fome provifion hereof in many 

 from their figure, that as they fall from 

 the tree they may lye in Portions agree* 

 able to fuch advantages. 



Befide the open and vifible Tefticles 

 of plants, the (eminall pores lie in great 

 part invisible, while the Sun findes po- 

 I lypody in ftone-wals, the little ftinging 

 | Nettle, and nigh tfliade in barren fandy 

 High-wayes, Scwvj-grtffc in GreeneUnd^ 

 and unknown plants in earth brought 

 from remote Countries, Befide the 

 known longevity of fome Trees, whaC 

 is the moft lading herb, or feed , 

 feems not eaOly determinate. Man*- 

 drakes upon known account have lived 

 near an hundred yeares. Seeds found in 

 Wilde-Fowls Gizards have fprouted in 

 the earth. The Seeds of Mar jorane and 

 Stramonium carelefly kept, have grown 

 after feven years. Even in Garden- plots 

 long fallow, and digged up, the feeds 

 ofBltttaria and yellow henbane^nd after 



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