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Security of the Seed whilft it hangs upon the 

 Plant, but after it is mature and fallen upon the 

 Earth, for the Stercoration of the Soil and Pro- 

 motion of the Growth, tho' not the firfl Germi- 

 nation of the feminal Plant. Hence 

 (as * Petrus de Crefcentiis tells us) * ^s^^^- ^- 2- 

 Hufbandmen, to make their Vines 

 bear, manure them with Vine Leaves, or the 

 Hulks of expreffed Grapes 5 and they obferve 

 fhofe to be mofl fruitful which are fo manured 

 with their own ^ which Obfervation holds true 

 alfo in all other Trees and Plerbs. But befides 

 this Ufe of the Pulp or Pericarphim for the Guard 

 and Benefit of the Seed, it ferves alfo by a fecon- 

 dary Intention of Nature in many Fruits for the 

 Food and Suftenance of Man and other Animals. 



Another thing worthy the noting in Seeds, and 

 argumentative of Providence and Defign, is that 

 papofe Plumage growing upon the Tops of fome 

 of them, whereby they are capable of being waft- 

 ed with the Wind, and by that means fcattered 

 and diffeminated far and wide. 



Furthermore, moft Seeds having in them a 

 ferhinal Plant perfedly form'd, as the Young is 

 in the Womb of Animals, the elegant Compli- 

 cation thereof in fome Species is a very pleafant 

 and admirable Spedacle ; fo that no Man that 

 hath a Soul in him can imagine or believe it was 

 fo form'd and folded up without Wifdorn and 

 Providence. But of this I have fpoken already. 



Laftly, 



