does, according to the moft common 

 opinion , ceafe to be a part of the 

 living Plant, as a Hand or a Foot cut 

 off is no more reckoned among the 

 Lims of the man it belonged to$ 

 yet 'tis very poffible thatfbme Fruits 

 may receive maturation, after they 

 have been fevered from the Plants 

 that bore them. For, not to mention* 

 that Apples, gathered (bmewhat be- 

 fore the time, by lying in heaps, do 

 ufually obtain a mellownefs, which 

 feems to be a kind or degree of Matu- 

 ration 5 or that Medlars, gathered 

 whilft they are hard and harfh, do be- 

 come afterwards in procefs of time foft 

 and better tailed 3 in which ftate 

 though fome fay they are rotten, yet 

 others think that fuppofed rottennefs 

 is the proper Maturity of that kind of 

 Fruit : Not to mention chefe, I fay., 

 or the like Inftances, 'tis a famous 

 Affertion of feveral Writers of the 

 Indian affairs, that the Fruit they call 

 Bananas is ufually gathered green, 

 and hung up in bunches or clufters in 

 the houfe, where they ripen by de* 



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