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which Account, as it cannot well be contraded, with- 
out leaving out fomething material ,* and as it ferves to 
lliew fome of the excellent ufes of our ingenious Phi- 
lofopher’s happy Difcoveries, I (hall (“to conclude this 
Abftrad) give in the Author s own Words. 
“ Supported by the Evidence of many of the fore- 
going Experiments, I will now trace the Vegetation 
“ of a Tree, from its firfl: feminal Plant in the Seed, 
“ to its full Maturity and Produdion of other Seeds, 
“ without entring into a particular Defcription of the 
“ Strudure of the Parts of Vegetables ; which has 
already been done by Dr. Grew and Malpighi. 
“ We fee by Experiment $6, ^ 7, diflilled 
“ Wheat, Peafe, and Muftard-Seed, what a wonderful. 
“ Provifion Nature has made, that the Seeds of Plants 
‘‘ Ihould be well flored with very adive Principles ; 
“ which Principles are there compaded together by 
“ him, who curioufly adapts all things to the pur- 
“ pofes for which they were intended, with fuch ajufl 
degree of Cohefion, as retains them in that State, 
“ till the proper Seafon of Germination : For if they 
were of a more lax Conflitution, they would too 
“ foon diflblve like the other tender Annual Parts of 
“ Plants : And if they were more firmly conneded, 
“ as in the Heart of an Oak, they mud neceffarily 
“ have been many Years in germinating, tho’ fupplied 
with Moidure and Warmth. 
“ When a Se?d is fown in the Ground, in a few 
“ Days it imbibes fo much Moidure, as to fwell with 
very great force ; as we fee in the Experiment on 
Peafe in an Iron-Pot, This forcible Swelling of the 
Lobes of the Seed ar, ar, (Fig. tO does probably 
“ protrude Moidure and Nourifhment from the capil- 
“ lary Veflels r r, which are called the Seed-Roots, 
V u into 
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