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Show oA 5 A of 4h growing in Calabria and Sicily, and tender Embryo. adhering poffible a Seed fhould live a Monith, and much 5. Rofi#, which is an Oil fo far infp 5 asto become friable in the Cold, and may be the Ground, precur’d from any Oil, by boiling it much and long. Thus, if Tur; atinve be fet over a gentle thereto in the Form of a Cruft, to be gather’d the next Morning ere the Sun is up. Thelike Subftanceis found to exfude from a the 2-tree and Poplar, in e Heats of May and Fune ; at which Time y have a fone Z Tafte, and are even feen hird Clafs of Fuices are thofe of vers, or the genital Parts of Plants. In are, a pure, elaborated, volatile Oi/ or wherein the particular Smell of the owerrr s, and which byreafon meVolatility , exhales {pontaneoufly, at if the Flower belaid for fome warm Place, the odorous Juice or Spirit will be all fled. The Second, is the Juice exprefs'd from the Flower, which, in Reality is the fame with that of the Root and Leaves, onlyfarther prepared ; it is thicker than the former, and has c ny Smell at all: Thus, if you bruife 2, or otherfragrant Flower, and ex- it will be found altogether i is the fweet Juice called Honey, which exfudesfrom all Flowers; Alves, Colocyn- andother bitter Flowers not excepted. all Male Flowers that have Utricles at the’"Bétto m of the Petala, is found a vifcid, ruddy, {weet Juice in fome Plenty ; and ace cord ingly we fee the Children gather C, lips, Honeyfuckles, &c. and fuck the Honey from them ; Flowers, lefs a Year or two, intire and uncorruptedin This Oil is found in the in fome, ex. gr. in Alm nds, Ni in very great Quantities ; in others Pep drum, Sc. where one wou'd icarce Juice on them, which at the imagine anyOil at all, the cold Evening gathers into Fox-zi Without this O31 it were im- The pee too vifit thefe and putting in their Probofcides or Trun fuck out the Honey, and load their Stomachs therewith, to be. wards dif- 5. The fifth Clats of Fuices is thofe of the Bark which is an artful Congeries or Bundle of peripirative Ducts and abforbentVet ls, Of thefe Juices there are divers for the feveral Humours rais’d through the Leaves, Flowe Fire, ft diffo ecomes an Oi/, then a Balfam, th itch, and then a Rofin; in State iit is friable in the Cold, fufible by , and withal infiz able and combuttible ; foluble in Spirit of Wine, but not in Water, h makes the Character of Ro/iu, Hencethe Oil is moft abundant in the Barks in Summer, asall Ag mals of the Plants, haveall circul Bark, and accord: ngly arefre quently Glafs, diftil * from Wounds madetherein, Gafes, even the whole Plant is no more than the Pulp having ‘been eat out ; Popla x . Which vill live time in that State. TheBarkferves divers Purpofes, for it not only tranfmits the nutritious Juices of the Plant, but alfo contains divers fat oily Humours, to defend the flethy Parts from the InSees of the Weather As Animals are furnifh lusaeyfus, ufually replete wit invefts and coversall the fle skreens them from external Cold : encompafs'd with a Barkreplete w by the Means whereof the Colc and in /Vinter-time the Spicule ofIce f from fixing and freezing the Juices in their Veffels ; bene it is that{fome Sorts of Trees 4. Gum, which isa Humour exfuding out ot the oe and by ncoct d;, 1 are feen to languith after the E miffion of their Semen. The Juice of the Fruit is like that of the Root, only fartherelaborated. The Juiceof theSeedis an effential Oil or Baim, elaborated and exalted toits laft Perfection. This Juice or Oil is not found in the very rome or Embryo in the Centre of the Placenta ; all we meet with in that Part isa few fine watery Particles fecreted from the Placenta ; but it is in the Piacentuja or Cotyledones themfely es, which confift of innumerable little Folliculi or Cel Is, wherein this only Juice is contain’d, ferving to defend the Fl With this the Gems or Buds of Trees are fecreted in theBark, and dry’d by the Heat of the Sun; andthusconf{tituting a Body that Is partly mmous, and as fuch segaciou and foluble in Wate and partly refinous, and thereforefriable, and folublein Oi or Spirit of Wine, but not in Water. B / generally agreed, that all with Organs and Parts for Chylific 0. and Sanguithey Adipoi thac there muft be fome n the Juices, which have and preferve it from being corrupted by ter, which it is well known will hard! y pafs through Oil, Thus, if you take, e.g. Fennel-Seed, cut it through the Middle, and apply it to the Microftope, youwill eafily perceive a clear fhinine z Oil in the Cells of each Lobe invefting the Juices hiitherto recounted, are e, cali'd alias tl 1 Alterations < des in being ts of a pec 1, Be. Tt fame nutri g divers arts and toa new and Reafon whythefePlants will not thrive in very hot Climates. 3. A Balm or fatty Liquor more glutinous any than Oil, being not! 1ing but the laft-mention ‘d wg-time but which, by he: greater H ofthe Sun, “has evapor ated all its moft 4 Parts, Boiais converted into a denfer L Warmth, m behind: ve, ‘Thus having loft its more liquid by Heat, becomes of the thick Cor a Balm. 4. A pi the Oil farther than pon it, baldits Leaves the 4 I rome that ao Trees drop eps full in Motions and is not gone into the Root, as fome Per-~ { ons th k alfo other Experiments of thé which were fhewn before the gland Cedar, or srafted on the Virginic And <en to prove the Circulation in ir, is, ach i rafted was left feveral Inches be low r, which continued fo another, which is the % vith the Top planted in the Ground, was become R oots; and the Roots turn d Ups which were become Branches; which Plant was in as good a State of growing as it was in its natural State. A third Ex iment of his was ona Pears tree, which he inarched upon two Pear Stocks in March » hay e Roots out of the on and was in ood flourifhing State, with a Branch in bloffom, that receives no other Nourifhment but by the Juices that re- turn down the other two Branche tho’ it had been done above two Me continu’d fhooting§ aea of which is efteem’d as a Proof, that the are as ufeful to fupport theR oots the Br : t fo I many Trees mA no Branchesi the Head to m in the Circulation to Roots. xperiment he made ont » graft eaves in been on a Winter the ‘Tre Larix, wh ) Vinter, which I yet maintain’d the tion, as if it had held its Leay f the Graft 90d Healt In Opp animal! ; excel- oily Juice, which was more fluid during te Thus the finer Part of Oil of ©. ft and co nti nu *d fh ootin f in W henee ce it is concluded, their Leaves, the on ofthofe Parts, and not ftrar rculated a Number of planting, and other Ey Bs This Oi! diffolyes Bs the {malleft De- the ufual Seafon but the ever-green Ozk, which 5 s the upper Part above the coverd in /Vinter-time 8. A gummous Rofin, which is a Humour and exhal’d bythe Sun, &e, All the Juices of Barks are reducible to exhaled by the Summer's ecay’d, and fell off at wa Fe pulveriz’d. their Barks have more Oil than can be {pent, gree of Warmth, and is eafily inflam’d is that which defends the Plant, whic the Warmth, of U i iti Tolable in Water, time inflammable, and fearce remain ever green the Year round, by reaion unif alone. Oak, or Ilex upon the common Oak: The Leavy es of the common O which’ was- the a Co » Which isa Rofin ftill fart ex! vafted, of its volatile P: art, being pelluci d, friable, "and approaching to the Nature of eight, Z, charg’d and laid up in their Combs: So that 1. The ‘crude, acid, watery Juice, call'd Honey isa vegetable Juice the Chyle of the Plant. : Thefourth Clafs of Fuices are thofe of 2. Anoily Juice, which burrfting the Bark and Seed 5 the Preparative whereof in the Beginning of the oe c is Nature’s final Work : Which perform’d, the of divers Plants, as Beech, Plants feem to die for a time, AnotherInftance is, another Experiment:of the fame Perfon, who grafted the Ever green efents us vhole Leaves vi one of that_ Sor a plain ; |