14 ON BREEDING AND UAISING VEGETABLES. 



different to the mother plant, I surrounded the 

 sides of the plant with a frame of gauze, suffi- 

 ciently open to admit a free change of air, and 

 placed a hand glass on the top, and the conse- 

 quence was, not a single seed was formed ; ob- 

 serving the failure, I removed the covering, and 

 gave free access to the bees, &c., when a few 

 remaining blossoms immediately fructified, and 

 produced full pods of seed. 



Bradley proceeds, " But again, if the parti- 

 " cles of this powder should be required by na- 

 '< ture to pass into the ovaries of the plant, and 

 " even into the several eggs or seeds there 

 " contained, we may easily perceive, if we split 

 " the pistilium of a flower, that nature has pro- 

 " vided a sufficient passage for it into the 

 " uterus. 



" In the first figure I have given a design of 

 " one stamen, with its apex, to prevent mistakes 

 " in my explanation ; but the flower of every lily 

 " has six of the same figure and use, which are 

 " placed round about the pistilium or female 

 " parts, so that it is almost impossible it should 

 " escape from receiving some of the male dust, 

 " or farina feeundans, falling upon it. 

 _\^ w In this and other flowers of the same nature, 

 " the pistilium is always so placed that the apices 

 " which surround it are equal in height with it, 



