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The ufe again I make of this obfervati- 

 on, is this : Ii Oaklings are much hoas'd, 

 as in the cafe I am now upon, and their 

 bodies greatly (haded by each other ; as 

 the inmcft of fuch muft be 3 every fide of 

 their bodies is then a kind of north expofi- 

 tion, and muft inevitably lofe a great (hare 

 of the partial benefit of a more dilated 

 foutherly extenfxon of their bodies, for want 

 of an open fjn. And if the Dendranato-- 

 mijls are confalted^ their report will be, 

 how much greater the fap veifels are on the 

 before mentioned fide- 

 Ax d whence came the notions oi Jm* 

 pathf and antipathy to be exploded , in vege- 

 tables, as why fomie love, and fome again 

 hate each other ? But from the difcovery that 

 the latter proceeded only from fuch as af- 

 fected one and the fame nutritious aliment % 

 and from the former's attachment to a dif- 

 fimilar. 



Again, both in this refpeft, and in re- 

 gard to the great injuries all kinds of vege-' 

 tables receive from each other, by too great 

 a propinquity of place ^ efpecially if they 

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