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vegetables  dying  with  the  cold,  and  then  freezing,  ap- 
pears to  anfwer  the  laft  queftion.  Thefe,  however,  are 
queftions  which  at  prefent  I fhall  not  endeavour  to  folve. 
I have  made  feveral  experiments  upon  the  feeds  of 
vegetables  fimilar  to  thofe  on  the' eggs  of  animals;  but, 
as  inferting  them  would  draw  out  this  paper  to  too  great 
£ length,  I will  referve  them  for  another. 
Vol.  L XVIII, 
