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impregnating the Uterus of one another; and it is 
very common for our Gardiners to plant white and 
red Cabbages together for Seed, and they are as often dif- 
appointed by having a Degeneracy of both Kinds, 
Which they attribute to the Soil, and think that is the 
Caufe : They fend to Holland for a frefh Supply of 
Seeds, and fay our Soil will not continue that Sort 
Good. He told them his Opinion, and they laugh 
at him for it, and will not be turn’d out of their 
Road, although they fhould have never fo many Ex- 
periments fhew’d them. 
This Experiment is a mod convincing Argument 
for the Effluvia; for did each Grain of the Farina enter 
the Fiji ilium to its proper Uterus , this mongrel Kind 
wmuld never be produced. For if the individual Plant 
be in each Grain of the Male Farina , how can it be fo 
fardifmember’d,asthat one Part fliall goto the making up 
of the Ribs of red Cabbage, and another to compofe 
the reft of a Savoy Plant. Analagous to this, is what 
I lately obferv’d in a Spaniel Bitch, of fo good a Kind, 
that when fhe became proud, Care was taken to let 
her have good Dogs. The Litter ihe produced, con- 
fided of Puppies fome Piebald , like one of the 
Dogs that had lin’d her, of the fame Shape, Colour 
and Spots; others like another; and a third par- 
taking of both, with Spots from the Bitch interfpers’d. 
This is a farther Confirmation of what I have advanc’d, 
Eftay 4. where Page 310. I only affert, that leveral 
Foetus’s partake equally of Male and Female ; but 
here two Males concur with one Female in the Com- 
pofition of a fourth Body, made up of all the three-* 
And one Seed produces a Cabbage confiding of three 
different Species, which could never happen, did thefe 
organiz’d Animakitlaj or Granules of the Farina , be- 
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