( i i ’9 ) 
And doubtlefs the Birds are (tho* not by their Dung) 
Sowers of this, as they are of many other Seeds, 
which they carry away for Food ; but often drop 
in Places where they could otherwife never have 
come. 
While I was writing this out for your Perufal ; I 
went to gather fome M^JfeUo-Benks ('this being the 
Seafon that they are ripe, and fitted to be fown) 
and found a Leaf (which I fend you) which hath a 
Seed flicking thereon ; doubtlefs by a cafual Fall out 
of the Bill of fome Bird, that has broken the Berry 
as fhe was eating it. There is both a dry firing 
of the Slime, and a dry fpot of the fame, upon the 
Leaf, that fhow how the Seed was detained there^ 
in this Cafe ,* and how it muft be done in like man- 
ner any where elfe.* 
When I acquaint you, Sir, that I have Town thefe 
Seeds, on near thirty forts of Trees and Shrubs, 
and yet never had above ten Plants, that held out 
the fecond Year ,* you will not wonder, at the lit- 
tle fuccefs, that others have had, in their trials of 
this Seed ; and will aHb fee the Reafon, why I have 
not been able to make many other Experiments a- 
bout the growth of this Plant. However, fome Ca. 
fualties have furnifhed me with two or three ,• which I 
beg leave to relate,* becaufe they do fomewhat fur- 
ther explain the Nature of this Plants grow- 
ing. 
‘ One of my little Plants fown in Jpr, 1714. 
which was fixed at both Ends in its Arch-like Form, 
had in Sepf. 17x4, the middle part broken off; the 
two Ends keeping flilP fafi to the Tree. Which 
ffiews, how firmly the two Ends adhere, while it is 
in that flate ; and they both continued green fome 
time, and then withered away. 
a. That 
