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IV. A Letter from Benj. Cooke F. R. S. to 
Peter Collinfon F.R.S. concerning a mixed 
Breed of Apples, fro?n the Mixture of the 
Farina. \ 
Dear Coufin , Newport , Dec. 4. i 748. 
JWDec. 22 T sent you M Year a Specimen of the 
X E fifed of the Farina of a rough-coat 
Apple ftriking on the Flower of a fmooth- coat ; I 
have now fent an Example of the Farina of the lat- 
ter changing the former into its own Drefs and 
Likenefs. 
The Situation of the RulTeting was fuch, that he 
was furrounded by Winter Pippins, Pearmains, and 
fuch-like ; and we put the Mailer-Fruit together with 
feveral of the Changelings, as they grew on the 
fame Branches mixed together. 
This Inftance will (hew what Alterations may be 
expeded in cognate Species ; and I Ihould have given 
an Example of a kind of Antipathy betwixt the^Pear 
and the Apple in like Circumftances, but was dif- 
appointed. 1 am, 
Dear Coufin, 
Tours , moft obliged and affectionate, 
E. Cooke. 
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