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CHAP. 37. 
Bradley — a popular Writer on Gardening and 
Agriculture — Profejfor of Botany at Cambridge 
— Hiftoria Plantarum Succulentarum. 
Blair — Anecdotes of — His Mifcellaneous Ohferva* ^ 
tions — Botanic EJfays : a Book of much Injiruc- 
tion — Confirms the Do5frine of the Sexes of 
Plants hy Experiments — Pharmaco-botanologia 
-^Papers in the Phiiofophical Tranfadlions. 
BRADLEY. 
I^ICHARD Bradley, a popular writ* 
er on Gardening and Agriculture, in the 
early part of this century, was one of the firfl 
who treated thefe fubjedls in a phiiofophical 
manner; and, as he poflelTed confiderable 
botanical knowledge, is entitled to a place ia 
thefe Anecdotes. He firll made himfelf 
known to the public by two papers, printed 
in the xxixth Volume of the Phiiofophical 
T ranfaBions. One on the Motion of the Sap 
in Vegetables * the other, on the quick 
Growth of Mouldinefs on Melons f He 
became a Fellow of the Royal Society^ an(^ 
* Vol. xxix. p. 486. t lb, p. 49Q. 
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