


CH A PVE 
Of the GENERATION of the SEED. 




§ Imade choice of a Garden-Beav, to thew the matis 
ner of the Vegetation of the Seed : fo I fhall take 
{ an Aprecock, as very apt and convenient, to obs 
Ni ferve and reprefent the Method which Nature ta- 
Ve keth in its Geveration, : 
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2. §. Inorder to this, the firft thing that is to 
be done, is to make a fit Ofervs. Both to keep 
the Membranes of the Fetvs warm, and fucculent, 
tillit be formed : and to preferve and fecure the Fetws it felf after- 
wards, till it comes to be born into the Ground. 
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3. §. Forthis purpofe, the Pylp and Stone of the Fivit are both 
neceflary ; but primarily the stove - the Meat or Pulp being no other 
wife neceflary, but becaufe the Stove cannot be made without it 5 the 
petrifying of that Parenchyma which is the Ground of the Stone, being 
effeted, by the finking of the Tartar from the Pulp théreinto. 
4. g. And that, at the firft, the Ground of the Stove, is a diftine, 
but foft Parenchymas is evident in the cuting of a young Aprecock. 
OF which, alfo a flice cut off, with a Rafor, and viewed through a 
good Glajs, fheweth it to be compofed of Bladders, as the Pulp it 7,5 94 
fel Only, whereas many of thofe of the Pulp are large, now about ett 
as big as a white Pepper-Corm: thefe are no bigger than a Muftard- 
Seed. But as the Parenchyma hardens into a Stowe, thefe Bladders 
are all gradually filled up, and difappear. ; 
5. §. This Parenchyma is derived immediately from the Pith, as the 
Pulp is from the Barque 3 and makes the far greater part of the Stone. 
’Tis covered all over within,with a very thin Living 3derived,not from 
the Pith but the Parenchyma which covers the seed-Branch,upon its firft 
entrance within the hollow of the stoxt. This Lining is ofa clofe 
fubftances yet compofed of Bludders,exquifitely {mall and hardly vifible, 
By which means, it foon becomes a very hard and dry Body 3 and is Typ 96, 
hereby fitted, both to promote the induration of the reft of the Stone 5 = 
and the feafonable drying, and fo, the fhrinking up, of the Covers of 
the Seed, to make room for its Growth. 
6. §. The Stone being made hard and dry 5 it could never be fo 
fafficiently foftned by lying under gtound, but that, it would keep the 
Seeda perpetual prifoner, unlefs it were alfo made pretty eafily to cleave 
intwo. For which purpofe, the Sk of the Frat doth obfervably typ, go, 
conduce. Forina Slice ofa young Aprecock cut tranfverfly with a 
very tharp knife, it may be feen, efpecially with the help of a Gla/s, to 
be doubled inward from the two Lips of the Frait, and fo to be con- 
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