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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



clocks, rume:t, has been reckoned the mark of an inferior foil, and 

 the produdion of thiflles, ferratula arvenfi 



to 



be a fign of a good 



one 



which explai 



ftory 



a black letter book on huibandry 



which fays, «* A blind man went to purchafe a farm, which was of- 

 fered to fale, and riding over the pafture land, and hearing the good 

 hefs of the foil much applauded by the poffeflbr, at length difmount 



ed, and faid to his fe 

 no thiflles,' re 



Tie my horfe to a thilll 



Here 



th 



fe 



* but I can tie him to a dock 



purchafe the land,* fays h 



* Then I will not 



horfe with a good morning to you, S 



in great furprife." 



and 



mounting his 



left the owner of the ellate 



I 



o. To he infer ted at the end ofSe6l. XV. 3. f. 



To difcovcr when the feeds of herbaceous plants are ripe, as of 

 wheat, the drynefs or flraw-colour of the flem is in general a good 

 criterion ; as when the flem dies, and becomes bleached by the oxy- 



to the 

 mature feed. And to determine at what time to colledt thofe fruits. 



t> 



of the atmofph 



more nutriment can be conveyed 



hich 



ripen on the trees in this climate, as crab-appl 



and 



baking-pears, change of colour or fall of the leaf fliews, that they cai 

 acquire no more nourifhment, and may receive injury from the ap 



proaching froft-. 



But to determ 



our 



beft 



or 



earlieft apples and pears ar 

 ripe enough to gather, that is, when they will acquire no more nu 



triment from the tree, depends on a very curious circumftance of th 



of the fkin of the feeds 



/ 



there is no cavity round them, but the feed 



During the infant flate of the feed 



is in contad with the 



feed-veflel 



may be iiee 



ripe pear or apple ; and 



the feed therefore is perfedly etiolated, as it cannot part with any of 



• * 



oxy 



Afterwards when there is no more depofition of 



tiou 



3 



/ 



