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Seed, as any Plant can have. Thofe of the oblong 
Shape put out bur one Germen ; thofe like an 
Heart, have two, which prove two diflind Plants. 
Sir John Colehatch recommends the fowing this 
Seed by way of Inoculation : Accordingly in Feh, 
1711, I endeavoured to place the Berries, within the 
Bark of Oak^ Ajh, Beech, and Apple-xrtts^hy ma- 
king feveral Cuts and Gaflies in the upright Sides of 
the Trees. The whole Berries would not Bay in any of 
them ; and when I broke them, the Seed always flipped 
out to the Edge of the Cut, and then it ftuck to the 
Bark, by virtue of the flimy fubftance wherewith it 
is encompaffed. 1 aUV Buck one Seed on the bare 
Bark, without any cutting at all ; This fucceeded bed, 
and being the Heart-like lhape, gave me two Plants. 
For about the ^%th of March 17 • 9, this, with two 
more on the ^/>/>/e-tree, and one on the Pear-tree^ be- 
gan to fliootj and the Growth was in this manner: 
The Vifcous Matter having Buck the Seed on, and 
(as it dried) drawn the Seed clofe and flat down to 
the Bark of the Tree, there began, in March and 
pril, to fpring out of that end of the Seed, which 
had been toward the Eye of the Berry, a fmall deep 
green Shoot orTwigg, very like a fliort Piece of a little 
Clafpt r of the Vine. At firfl:, it arofe upward irom 
the Bark, and then turning again, as it approached 
the Tree, it fweiled out lomewhat bigger round about 
the End ; yet leaving the very Tip or Bottom, quite flat, 
forming ('as it were; a Foot to (land upon; not unlike 
the bottom of fome Brats Peflles. This Foot, when it 
came to the Bark, which was about May or June 1719, 
fixed it felf thereon Being thus faflned at both Ends, 
it made a little Arch, whole Diameter w as as long as 
the Seed, or about rV of an inch. 
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