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ii8 



O RGANS 



OF 



Sect.VII. 2. 8. 



rams 



& 



id Spanifli ewes. The ofFspring from the male goat of Ai 

 d the Svvedlfh female gpat had long foft camel's hair; but th 



from the male Swedifh g 

 improvement of their w 

 Swedifh horned ewe, 



and the female one of Angora, had 

 An Endiih ram without horns, an 



d 



produced ftieep without h 



Amoen. Acad 



Vol. VI. p 



I 



3 



8. From thefe 



{lances it appear 



ly new 



may be procured from the feminal ofFspring of plai 



wh 



thofe from th 



al ofFspring become difeafed by 



& 



th 



pple-graft 



d perhaps th 



rled potat 



but that more curious or ufeful fi 



es, and barren 

 or flowers may 



on 



the 



kered ; 



ftrawberr 



be obtained by fhedding th 



flicrma of another variety of the fame fpecies, as of two different but 



equally excellent apple-trees, or tulip-flowers, hyacinths, auemonies. 



farina of fome valuabl 



d creraniums. And thirdly, that mules may be produced by 



f difFerent fpecies of plants, and perhaps of difFei 



genera 



ap 



of pines and melons ; grapes and goofeberries j oranges and apples ; 



acorns ; which may be afterwards 



d ned. 



and 



propagated by the lateral progeny, if not by the feminal one. 

 The facility of generating vegetable mules feems forcibly to h 



fliruck the great Linneus ; who in the preface to h 



ord 



of plants at the end of his Genera Plantarum thinks, that about fixty 



veg 

 Th; 



bles were at firft created correfponding with his natural ord 



of thefe orders amonsfl: themfelves produced th 



nera ; t 

 fpecies 



1 



d th 



f the genera amongfl themfelves produced the 



scies produced the varieties, 



mixture of 



>fti 



h 



he bel 



to 



ord with the general p 



fs 



f 



Jromfimpkr things to the more compound'' 

 In the fame manner it may be fuppofed, that many of the prefe 



foe 



f animals were originally mules produced by 



f diff( 



and th 



t) 



of reprodu6lion, continued their fp 



fuch 



mixture of 

 had perfect 



But as thefe org 



feem 



I 



be 



foi 

 da 



bil 



ii 



