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t chofe fome of the largeft Cloves I could find, called 
Mother-Cloves ; for they are ufually gathered while un- 
ripe : in fome very large ones, which I judged perfectly 
ripe, I examined theinfide only, and found it toccnfift 
of two parts, lying one upon the other ; which tho' 
they lie withfeveral Angles, aud each in a different man- 
ner, yet they are the Kernels, or Medullary part : for 
between thefe the Emlrio-plant is placed, and is joyned 
to them by Ligaments, by means of wfatteh it is nou- 
rifh'd. The beginning of the Emlrio-plant is delineated 
Fig. 9. wherein EFG {hews the complicated Leaves. 
BCDE and GHIK ', the Broken Ligaments which are 
joyned to every part of the Kernel or Medulla ; which 
manner of Union is in many Seeds, but in fome Seeds 
the joyning is only where the Trunk and Root begins. 
ABKL is that part of the young IPlant, whence the 
Stem or Root begins,of which this is but a fixth part \ this 
was of a dark Green, full of feveral very fhining Glo- 
bules : I wetted that part whence the Stem proceeds, 
otherwife it was too brittle to cut, and then (ticking to 
the Knife, it prefently turned black, by reafon of the 
Salt it contained, tho' before it was very white. Fig. 10. 
MNOP is one of thefe Pieces fo cut off, in which the 
tranfparent fhining Globules reprefented in the former 
Figare between A and L> are here ften cut through. I 
could difcover but few Pores in the outward Skm, by 
reafon mod of them were ftirunk and dried up. I en- 
deavoured to make fome of the Mother-Cloves to vege- 
tate by fowing them in Sand ; but in vain only, one 
time I made the little Leaves of the Embrio begin to 
open themfelves , as Fig. B Q^R £, in which 
Leaves the aforementioned (hining Globules were vifible, 
tho' in the other Leaves they were not. The manner of 
curing Cloves in India, is by foakingthem in Salt water, 
and drying them in the Smoak, which makes them 
look fo black, which when I heard of a Gentleman 
that 
