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It is an obfervation of a very remote date, that cultivation often 



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takes from plants the power of propagating by feed : this is clearly 



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feen in m.oft of the plantations of the ifles, and more efpecially in 

 the bread-fruit tree, where the feeds are flirivelled up, and loft as it 



fame 



man- 



were, in a great quantity of farinaceous pulp ; * in the 



ner it alfo happens in the plantane, which fometlmes hardly 



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preferves the rudiments of feeds, -f- The O-Tahcitee apple, 



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which contains a hard capfula, commonly has no feeds in the locu- 

 laments or divilions ; the gardenia, hibifcus and rofa fmenfis almoft 

 £onftantly bring flowers where the number of petals, is multiplied, 

 and neither of tl;iem have feed. But the cloth tree .or morus papy- 



fera 



is the moft 



extraordinary of all, inafmuch as it never 



bloflbms in thefe ifles ; the reafon is obvious, for the natives never 



, fuffer. it to grow till the time of flowering comes on, as the bark 



•■would then be unfit for their purpofe. The great fertility and 



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exiioerance. 



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•Kilippines likewife the bread-fruit tree wild, and as th}^ 

 plant had there not undergone fo many changes from cultivation, it bears ripe feeds, of a 

 ■-•confiderable fize, which he has delineated and engraved. ' " 



met with one kind of the mufa wild in New Holland, which 



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there bore and perfe(il«d its feeds 



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