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new fct fruit may in that ftate be looked 
upon as a compleat egg of the tree, con- 
taining its young unhatched tree, yet in em- 
brio)then the bloflbm falls off, leaving this 
new formed egg, or firfl: fet fruit in this infant 
ftate, to imbibe nourifhment fufficient for^ 
it felf, and the Foetus with which it is im- 
pregnated : Which nourifhment is brought 
within the reach and power of its fudion 
by the adjoyning leaves. 
If I may be allowed to indulge conjefture 
in a cafe, in which the mod diligent in- 
quirers are as yet, after all their laudable re- 
fearches, advanced but little farther than 
meer conjefture, I would propofe it to their 
confidcration, whether from the manifeft 
proof we have that fulphur ftrongly attracts 
air, a hint may not be taken, to confider 
whether this may not be the primary ufe of 
the Farina foecundanSy to attraft and unite 
with it felf elaftick or other refined aftive 
particles. That this Farina abounds with 
fulphur, and that a very refined fort, is pro: 
bable from the fubtile oil which chymifts 
obtain from the chives of faffron. And if this 
be the ufe of it, was it poflible that it could 
be more aptly placed for the purpofe on very 
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