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and, particularly in one Place, where there was abroad 
Ditch of Water betwixt them. Some of our People, 
but efpecially the Ab-Origines , have been of Opinion, 
that this Commixtion, and Interchange, was owing to 
the Root?, and fmall Fibres reaching to and communi- 
cating with one another } but this rauft certainly be a 
Miftake, confidering the great Diftance of the Commu- 
nication, efpecially at fome Times, and crofs a Canal of 
Water ^ for the fmalleft Fibres of the Roots of our In- 
dian Corn, cannot extend above four or five Foot. I 
am therefore humbly of Opinion, that the Stamina , or 
Principles of this wonderful Copulation, or mixing of 
Colour?, are carried thro’ the Air by the Wind 0 and that 
the Time, or Seafon of it, is, when the Corn is in the 
Earing, and while the Milk is in the Grain, for at that 
Time, the Corn is in a Sort of Equation, and emits a 
ftrongSeent. One Thing, which confirms the Air’s be- 
ing the Medium of this Communication of Colours in 
the Corn, is an Obfervation of one of my Neighbours, 
that a clofe, high board Fence, between two Fields of 
Corn that were of a different Colour, entirely prevented 
any Mixture or Alteration of Colour, from that they 
were planted with. 
It has been obferv’d by Naturalifts, that even Na- 
ture, which gives Laws to every Thing, does not al- 
ways ftri&ly obferve her own Rules ; and I think, I 
have, in my own Town, met with a very notable Inftance 
of this in the Vegetable World. 
An Apple Tree there bears a confiderable Quantity 
of Apples, efpecially every other Year, which never had 
a Bloffom ; 1 had formerly heard the Owner fpeak of it: 
But for the three laft Years, 1 made it my Bufinefs,in the 
proper Seafon, to go and obferve it my Felf ^ and when 
all the reft of the Orchard was in the Bloom, this Free 
had not one Bloffom. Not being contented with onge 
going, I went again, and again, till I found the young 
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