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Bough which bore it (as Teems to be in Tulips and 
Tome other Flowers), is not To eafy to determine, Ex- 
periments of this Tort being not to be made at all, 
but catch’d at diftant Opportunities; and till this 
Point is fettled, the Diftcmper of my good Friend’s 
Tree muft reft unexplained. 
Artificial Helps of Sight have added to former 
Difcoveries the explofive Manner of the Farina’s 
Attion ; but what may be the Effect of the incon- 
ceivcably fine fubtile Matter emitted from its Glo- 
bules, and continually wafted about in great Plenty 
and Variety in the Summer Air, not only on vege- 
table Productions ( where on different Subjects it 
may not improbably have oppofite Effetts) but other 
Matters not yet fu fpetted to be To much under its 
Influence, remains a Field of Inquiry for future 
Ages. -However, to what Mr. Lorgan hath vefv 
juftly obferved ( TranfaB . 44.0.) on the Manner of 
Impregnation of the Seeds in Mayzc — I can add this, 
that if the Seed and whole Species of Mayzc be plan- 
ned about two Yards Diftance from each other, there 
will be a Mixture of red and white Grains in the 
Ears of each Plant, and you may with Pleafure ob- 
ferve the Filament in the white Plant, which hath 
been ftruck with the red Farina, difeovering its alien 
Commerce by a confcious Blufh, and by counting 
the Threads they ftained, foretell how many corref- 
ponding Seeds will appear red, at the opening of the 
Ear, when ripe. 
A Man of about 22 Years married a healthy 
young Woman, much of the TameAge. — Soon af- 
ter he went to America, and at the End of feven 
Years returned cachettic,anafarcous, and deeply tinged 
with 
