ON BREEDING OR RAISING VEGETABLES. 17 



" plant, because it seldom misses to produce 

 " seed. Several years ago I had the conveni- 

 " ency of a large garden, wherein there was a 

 " large bed of tulips j in one part, containing 

 " above 400 roots ; in another part of it, very 

 " remote from the former, were twelve tulips in 

 " perfect health. At the first opening of the 

 " twelve, which I was very careful to observe, 

 " I cautiously took out of them all their apices, 

 ** before the farina fecundans was ripe, or any 

 " ways appeared. These tulips, being thus cas- 

 " trated, bore no seed that summer ; while, on 

 " the other hand, every one of the 400 plants 

 ** which I had let alone produced seed. 



*' By this knowledge we may, perhaps, alter 

 " the property and taste of any fruit, by impreg- 

 " nating the one with the farina of another of 

 " the same class : as, for example, a codlin with 

 " a pearmain, which will occasion the codhn so 

 " impregnated to last a longer time than usual, 

 *' and be of a sharper taste ; or if the winter 

 " fruits should be fecundated with the dust of 

 " the summer kinds, they will decay before their 

 " usual time. And it is from this accidental 

 " coupling of the farina one with the other, tliat 

 " in an orchard, where there is variety of apples, 

 " even the fruit gathered from the same tree 

 *' differ in their flavour and times of ripening ; 



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