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in Westminster Hall, a prosecution against him. The 

 unfortunate man being unable to prove his innocence be- 

 fore the judges, the Court found him guilty of fraud ; and 

 he was condemned, not only to restore the price given for 

 the seeds, but was likewise obliged to pay each gardener 

 for the loss of time, and for the ground that had been 

 uselessly occupied. His character and circumstances 

 were consequently ruined ; which impaired his health, and 

 caused him to pay an untimely debt to nature. Had the 

 judges been at all apprized of the sexual hypothesis, or 

 had this honest man known, from careful observation, the 

 use of the farina in rendering the pistillum productive, 

 Baal would not have been found guilty of a crime, but the 

 accident would have been attributed to the true cause, 

 the fortuitous impregnation of the brassica florida by the 

 farina of the brassica longifolia growing in the neighbour- 

 hood." 



