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Show GE needof the Sced to propagatetl is the lefs need of the Flowerto | he had fe try’d w the Plant which produces the Seed: So the Bryou:a and the 1 re quently feen to grow, the one to prodt Berry, and theotherthe/ the Plants which ae the Male ) the one or the ot her are aesiol? tt he} as well as in Aging titisan A to confirm its; for it fhe when newlylaid, fhall be of the fame Bignefs, Colour, Tafte and Smell with another Egg Gard fre= which has been Cock’d (as theycall it) i. e. brought 1 a few of F jection t of afc y find the rinal Le after few Days they ju notwithftand oa yo's decay’d and at ip atter tihey were pretty bi i pan ly, and feem'd {to be wl vile all the others miffcar not one A ar where yd, ripe n to theful This Exper 0's by fromthe J were rs 310 more than A And th © the ripening of a few, ntients were ignorant of tl 1which seca Hermaphrodite Fla and they not havin g a trueéNotion of RY.5 eae: could not im both $ xes fhould b ‘in one Flower, up on one and the fame Foot—ftalk, altho’ Bunce oy might ha | ec they we ft Ne could nor be fure of thar , unlefs S g creaie of Increafe defign’d Hen can had Ce¢ ftalks of the Hermaphrodite Flowers are proportionably Jarger than thofe either of the Male or Female; they have a double Office, and contributefucceflively to both. In thofe where the Calix becomes the Fruit, the greateft Supply is furnifh’d to it firft, and diftributed in its Cortical Parts; as is vifible inthe Rofe, in which the Foot-ftalk is fo far with the Bud. After the Calix is thus form’d, the next Diftribution is to the Inner or Centrical Bae of the Flower, which Dr. Grew and where the Pif 7 becom es th the Pijtilum and Sil is form’d at Hh fam time with the Stamii id the Apices. any Thought of Sexes in them, it they he ote fety? d for tl Flower may not impr epstlydbe call’ L Sper1M Veffels; for *tis from them that the Sen Particles in Male, Female, and Hei Flow are feparated: therefore tl eafy to determine, by the Katkins or Suli upon the Walaut, Filbert, or Hafel-trees, whether fuch or fuch Trees will be fertile or barren for the enfuing Seafon, before any of the Embryo’s begin to break, be pufh’d forth, AHutive. th Vv were k others to the Flowers. Thole which go to the Foot-ftalk of the enlargedat firft, as to be of an equal Bignefs different Sexes in Plants, they were. call'd upon Account of their Weaknefs; or animated ore Prapavantia, Defeventia, and Coutentia Semen. feparate Places upon the fame Tree ; For it is caufe thofe Perfons not having any Notionof Id not now do f the Fertility or Barrennefs of any Tree, in the moreorlefs fruitful Seafons, may be known, to ignorant orlefs-curious Perfons, by the ntity of the Flowers which appears in the Spring-time, andthat not only in Trees alone, where the Flower and Fruit are upon one and the fame Foot-ftalk, but alfo in fuch Trees where the Flowers are upondiftin& Trees, or Flowers in this felpedt, mayaptly be di- dIn creafe of 2 Wth contribure t altho’ Mr thefe familiar Confideration may be added; That vided into that of Mal. » Blowers: which (as has been before obferv’ d) were formerly reputed barren 5 and the Plants which produc’d them werealfocall’d ale Plauts, alc“ending they co other entatio it felf. In order to confirm the Neceffity of two Sexes of Plants, as well asin Animals, this Having alreadytreated of the Male and irit, Which fhould |have deftinated for Nutrition and the Secretion of the feveral Juices in the Body, Spermatick Veflels, which confit of Blood; and the other feparates the Semen from Blood, and elaborates it. So likewife in Plants there are Vef 1 cis th receive the Nutritious Particlesfromt he and conveyit to the Extremities of the P lant; fome of which tenddireéily to the Leaf, and Female Parts of Flowers, we fhall next confider their U, xpand Supply of Natri thofe Veffels that are Seed may remain crude, indigefted, and in- or appear. Ufe of the whatfoever emi of thefe cemi it muft be ducive not onlyfor the Impr e e d, but alfo for the Growth 2 and Imr tion of the Fruit. At Peele nt \ rifhment i demonftrated, and that Female Seem tho’ it fhould ripen tothe full; cannot be fertile, except it be impregnated The Preparantia in Males are the BloodVeflels and the Teffes: The one conveys the before receiv'd fome Extraneous Matter or fome Aétive Particles oe the Male Parts of the Flower, or from the Male Flower fome § The Neceffity. of different Sexes in Plants having been and the Pulp or Parenchyma of the Fruit may be augmented ; and yet the Particles of the a {uitable Motion, whereby to_ protrude the Fibrilla of the Root at one End, and the Seminal Leaves at the other; except it has fit, by commit In and Female Flowers, than was formerly be= lieved. by ee it receives from the MaleParts of Flowers; we fhall next explain the Organs of fetid and rot. Generatiow in both Sexes. The Cafe is juft the fame with the Seed of Inthe Avimal Oeconomy, there are, befides capable to be explicated anddilated, or fet in of the A |a appear, when, both are put under the Hen, in order to be hatch’d; forthe onefhall pullulate or chitr, and the other fhail become Ripenefs, the Seed-Veflels may be inlarg’d, eing evid ie with £ folid, and have all the Tokens of a perfect when the ordin ary Means of propag by. the Seed cannot be cine mi xt a Plant ; it may be augmentedand increafed in its Bal k ; it may become firm, hard and Contrivances In order to prelerve tl 1e¢ 0 efe, and more that mig t Proofs of two Sexe as well as An mals, we fhall, iin the next Place, give ne Experiments to confirm his in a Ne tive Way ay, as has been already done in a Pofitive Taseagte ; When Plants have nue be n depriv’d of their ale Parts in eeFlov ver, produc aeno § od at all ry became aborti ve, dry’d beeor dw ay; or, though the Seeds did come to they were ba tren, or did not Vater which has been fecundated by the Mafculine Seminal Materies : but the Difference will G tes have the tho’ they are “notMow numerous as ave been fuppos'd to be: fe for, aa £xamination, it will be found, that tmany morePlants have diftin@ Male The Sty/us at the very firft acquires both its due Length and Bignefs; for the Nutritious Particles afcending in the Centre, never ftop “till the Sty/ws is flretch’d out to its full Length; and in fuch as are furnifh’d with a peculiar Apex, that is form’dfirft: The Neck of the Stylz, or that Part next to it, is the biggeft; from thenceit gradullay decreafes in its Grofinefs, ’till it comes to the Piflillum. This is eafily perceiv’d by thofe whowilltake the Pains to open the Bud of a Lily, Tulip, &c, before theyare half blown. The Stamezis furnifh’d next with an extraordinary Supplyof the Nutritious Particlesbe— fore the Floweris blown: Thefe, whether fewer ormore, are at firft brought to their proportional Largenefs, being round andjuicy. The is the third which receives this extraordinary Supply of the Nourifhment ; for ter that the Sty/m is form’d, that it may lean to it after the Veficls of the Stamen are extendedto their full Length, and fo form’d that they can conveyfuch an extraordinary Quan- tity of Particles as mayfill upthe Capacity of LAR the: 4; ¢, it is then more enlarg’d than ever after; |