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An Onion, fet out for Seed, will rife to four Foot 
nine Inches in Height. A Parfnip will reach to eight 
Foot, red Orrice will mount nine Foot, white Or rice 
eight. In the Padures, I meafured Seed Mullen nine 
Foot two Inches in Height, and one of the common 
Thiftles above eight Foot. / 
Vegetation . 
Among the remarkable Indances of the Power of Ve- 
getation, I fhall begin with an Account of a Pumpkin 
Seed, which I have well atteded, from a worthy Di- 
vine. * The Relation is as follows : That in the 
Year 1 699, a (ingle Pumpkin Seed was accidentally 
dropp’d in a fmall Padure where Cattle had been fodder’d 
for fome Time. This (ingle Seed took Root of itfelf, and 
without any Manner of Care or Cultivation ^ the Vine 
run along over feveral Fences, and fpread over a large 
Piece of Ground far and wide, and continued its Pro- 
grefs till the Frod came and kill’d it. This Seed had 
no more than one Stalk, but a very large one ; for it 
meafured eight Inches round from this (ingle Vine, 
they gathered two hundred and (ixty Pumpkins and, 
one with another, as big as an half Peck enough in 
the Whole, to (ill a large Tumbrel, befides a confidera- 
ble Number of fmall and unripe Pumpkins, that they 
made no Account of. The Thilofophical Tranfaffions 
give an Account of a fingle Plant of Barley, that by 
(teeping and watering with Saltpetre diifolv’d in 
Water, produced two hundred and forty nine Stalks, 
and eighteen thoufand Grains; but then there was 
Art 
J he Reverend Air. Edwards 0/Windfor. 
