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/ 



I, 



'Of 



itri. 

 Ued 



try, 



ikea 



30tS. 



r 



ufe- 



and 

 ity; 

 ive; 



:ioift 

 beef 



:hofe 



It be 



lired, 



lY pe- 



? 



a 



feaiy 



f the 



) 



mule 



: they 



: See 



P 



le 







fea- 

 ftbe 



1 





r 



Sect. XVI. 4 



OF 



SEEDS 



449 



/ 



duftof 



fhould be blown by 



winds upon 



11 



ID 



mata of the Wronger, and thus produce a lefs vigorous p 



geny 



Wh 



:ty, 



othe 



required 



the male duft of one good 



f the nonpareil apple, fliould be (bed upon the (1 



of 



ood variety, as 



fom 



e 



ew 



of the golden -pippm ; 

 ty might be thus generated 



and it is probabl 



Mr. Knight has given a curious exp 



f h 



s imp 



th 



ftiamas of the pea-bloflbms of one variety with the farina of 



He fays, Treatife of Apple and P 



p. 4 



Bloffoms of 



hich the males had previouOy been 

 dIlWed7we°e impregnated with the farina of a large clay-coloured 



hite garden-pea 



kind with purple bloflbm 



The produce of the feeds thus obt 



_. , of a dark grey colour, but thefe having no fixed habits, were 



fobn changed by cultivation into a numerous variety of very large and 



aely luxuriant white ones ; which 



ly much 



and more oroduaive than the original white ones, but the number 



of feeds in each pod was increafed from fe 



or 



eight to 



eis;ht. or 



d 



found 



frequently 

 fily made wh 



ten. 



The newly made grey kinds I 

 by impregnating their bloffoms 



with the farina of another white kind. In this experiment the feeds, 

 which crvew towards the point of the pod, and were by pofition firft 



pofed to the adion of the mal 



ould fometimes prod 



feed 



s 



like i 

 male. 



in 



whilft thofe at the oth^r end would follow the fe 



44 



In other infl 



hole prod 



f the pod would take 



the colour of one or other of the parents ; and I had once an inftance 

 in which two peas at one end of a pod produced white feeds like the 

 male two at the other end grey ones like the female, and the central 



feeds look the intermed 



fbad 



clay 



Something very 



fimilar appears to take place in animals, w^hich produce many you 



ones at a bii 



the male and fem 



of oppofit 



From fome very imperfe^l experiments I have made, I am led to fuf 



3M 



pe6l 



I 



