Seed have very much differiDg Salts 5^ and .ire of very diffc- 
rent kinds 3 and yet fee each Tree profper the better by the 
Exchange. Hence we may fiifpea, thac the very coouxtures 
of their Bodies , from the firft fpirting of their feed, and as 
they areform'd gradoally from the Invifible Principles or Spi- 
rit and vigor of their Seeds , however fmali and impaceptible^ 
are ih^ natural Limbecs 5 where the common Raine ^ Water , 
and Air 5 aredigefted into very much differing Leaves , Fruit, 
Seed,Refins, GumS;, cooling Julips, &c, perhaps as the Cow's 
belly converts the coairaon juyce of all forts of Grafs into Milk ? 
or as the Bee ferments the dew of all Flowers intoHony and 
Wax." 
Wefee alfo, that an handful of Moffc, fometimes above a 
fpanlong, and refembling Vegetables, grojws out of a fmall 
Oyfter-fcel, without Earth, dirt^ or fandfor the relief of the 
Root V Trees out of bare Rocks , and the annual attire cf Harts 
and Bucks ouc of their bony Heads.Whence v/^ may eafily appre- 
end , how the 5eeds in their time, and afterwards the Roots, 
Stems and Leaves of Trees , may be the proper i^crainers to 
g<^nerace the peculiar .yaps aad Juyces 5 and perhaps tofermenc 
and boyle the Liquors into their feveral ^^alcs. It may pafs 
fora refemblance, if not for an mftance? that the Juyce of 
fome fweet Pears may be dryed into a veryfweet -Sugar-, and 
the Juyce of fome other Pears is fo fierce , that at the very ope- 
ning of the Rind with the teeth, it doth almoft fuffocate, as 
if it would kill deadiximediately 5 and yet this Juyce by time 
and feafonable maturation becoms fweet, winy, andlufciou^ 
And we hear of divers Exotick fruits that will kill outright 5 and 
tha t fo quick , as may challenge the fierceft Menfirunm of an 
expert Chymift, Now, as the Horns of a i'tagg have their 
whole growth aud vertue from the protruding Bloud and Spi- 
rits of the Anmal^ the MoflTe (as by the Microfcopc ap- 
pears , when withered ) from the inward (hel of the Oyfter and 
the Marine Water 3 fo in Plants, the i'ap may by Heats and 
Coolers, and other changes in *5'ummer> Autumn, and Win- 
ter, by Winds, and comprefling Air, be hardened in o 
the Timber, i^eeds and their 'Stones and Kernels AH 
feemS to be but^ap at the firft draught, or little elfe befides 
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