ON BREEDING AND RAISING VEGETABLES. 15 



" or above it, so that their dust naturally falls 

 " upon it ; and when we observe it to be longer 

 " than the apices, we may then conjecture that 

 "the fruit has begun to form itself, and has no 

 " longer occasion of the male dust. And it is 

 " likewise observable, that as soon as the work 

 " of generation is performed, the male parts, 

 " together with the leaves or covering, fall off, 

 " and the pipe leading to the uterus begins to 

 " shrink. We may further remark, that the top 

 " of the pistilium of every flower is either co- 

 " vered Avith a sort of velvet tunick, or emits a 

 " gummy liquor, the better to catch the dust of 

 " the apices. 



*' And now, as we find in the description I 

 " have given of the lily, that the uterus is within 

 " the flower, so, on the other hand, the uterus 

 " of the rose is without the flower, at the bottom 

 " of the petals or flower-leaves. And likewise 

 " in fruit-trees, the cherries, plums, and some 

 " others, have their utricles within their flowers ; 

 " and the gooseberry, currant, apples, and pears, 

 " on the outside or bottom of their flowers. 



" But further, although nature has designed 

 " the dust of the apices to fecundate the female 

 " parts, contained in the flowers of plants, yet 

 *'we observe, that in some plants the male and 

 " female parts are remote from each other ; as. 



