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In the upper part of this Sand thiM difpos^d, I fet two 
"Kernels of an Orange that was brought from Curacdo j but 
whereas I put the other Seeds into the Sand immediately 
as (oon as I took them out of the Orange, I did not fet 
thefe laft till fome days after they had been out of thefaid 
Orange, for which reafon they were dryer than the others, 
and confequently d emanded a longer time before they coud 
fproUt out, but in the fpace of three weeks, by the warmth 
of my body only, they had Germ.snatedj as is fhewn in the 
faid t'ig. B C FG. 
N0W9 that the Limner might have a better view of the 
Seeds which were coverM with Sand, I pour'd om fomeof 
it, and then they appeared as BC G, 
Between A B G H are reprefented the long Roots with 
their fmall twigs and branches againft the fides of the Tube, 
Since the above-mention'd time, I obferv'd but very 
little change in the Plant in fome days, the reafonof which 
i fuppofe to be that all the moifture was cxhaufted by the 
Plant, wherefore I pourd a litdemore Rain water into the 
top of the Sand, and then the Plant grew bigger, info- 
much that in five weeks time 'twas got almoft to the upper- 
moft Cork D E, and the Roots alfo were Ipread into 
more Branches, and had not only extended themfelves to 
the lower Cork, but one little Root had infinuated itfelf 
between the Cotk\and the Glafs, and had there fhot forth 
another Branch. 
Whereas the externalMembranesofthefe Seeds arc very 
thick and hard, and that part of the tender Plant which 
'Nature has defign d for a Tree is not able to bore thro tr, 
or burft it afunder, as happens in the Plants of Nuts, Al- 
monds, Teaches, &c. The wife Creator of all things has 
found out an expedient for this alfo, to wit, that this 
Plant (hall not fpriiig up in a right line thro the Seed dr 
Kernel, but out of the fides thereof, as you may obferve 
in Fig. If. between D and F, and Fig, 22. between N 
and O. 
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