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them fufficient to impregnate thefe Flowers, jFot* they 
bore good ripe Seed $ which perfuades him, that the 
varina may be carried from Place to Place by Infers, 
and when they happen upon a Flower, whole Uterus 
is capable to be impregnated by fuch a Dull, it may 
be thus effected. J 
l am of Opinion, this will not fuit with Mr. Mot- 
lands Scheme. For tho’ we may fuppofe the Stamina 
° every Flower to be loaded with a due Proportion 
or the Farina^ yet this accidental Conveyance of it 
to a neighbouring Flower, may be rather lefs than 
greater than is necefTary : So that, if wanting, then 
thofe Embry ones , which had not received its de- 
termined Particle into their Bofom, . mull be defe- 
ctive in Bulk, or barren in growing, but here all 
were equally fill'd. 
i. By a Second Letter, OEtober 19. 17x1. he in- 
forms me, that he bought a Parcel of Savoy Seeds of 
a Neighbour, which he fowed, and planted out the 
Plants ; but was furprized to fee the Produdion : For 
he had half of them red Cabbages, and fome white 
Cabbages, and fome Savoys with red Ribs, and fome 
neither one Sort nor other, but a Mixture of all Sorts 
together in one Plant. He went to the Gardiner and 
told him his Tale, who fhewd him, that he was in the 
fame Condition, but did not know how it Ihould come to 
pals, for he was lure he took fpecial Care in laving of the 
Seed. Being ask’d how and where he planted them for 
Seed, he fhew’d him them under a South-Weft Hed^e 
and told him the Manner in which he planted them • 
Fnit, a Dozen of white Cabbages, then a Dozen of Sa- 
voys, and then a Dozen of Red. Then he immedi- 
ately thought how it came to pafs, by the Effluvia 
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