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comes it to pass that it falls onely on flowers, and not on theplants and leaves of trees ? Answer, It falls not only on flowers,but on leaves of trees and plants also, though feme plants andleaves, are not so tenacious, and retentive of it, as thegreat Maple, and the Oaken leaf, but being mote porous andipungy, fuck it up, and consume it.

Lastly, When the Hony-dew falls, the Bees gather it, andflock to it, but onely for their present repast and food. Answer,There is no rustick conversant among 8 es , but knows the con-trary , and by experience can fay, that they then gather morehony in twoor three dayes, than in two or three weeks afterthey cease.

RiberastS you may remember, attributes fmutfness of WheatHdmont.tu- tothe Hony-dew; and Relmom seems to be of the fame opinion,mulus pest s. calling it T riticum r or aim five mtsiium , and so do some othersalso. Now in a word to undeceive them. The cause of smuttyWheat, is not at a l from the Hony-dew, nor yet from any ofthose causes, that the author of the first letter in Mi.HartlifaLegacy delivers. Nor yet is it a deficiency onely in the vege-tative faculty , sot it grows and ptoduceth a blade, and an ear,but then it wants power to quicken and give life, as it were, bybtbwing to that corn that is put out in the car; so that not beingenlivened, it proves abortive, and turns into a stinking blackpowder (Ctiruptie tptimi ptfiima) smelling like a red Herring,or Carrion.

Now this falls out for want of a nitrous, and thereby a nu-tritive quality in the grain, for it is most certain, that salt is theseat of life, and vegetation, and so the subject of nutrition.

This by the way, take notice of, that they are most under> ears that arc subject to that malady, not therefore subject to it,

because they are lower than others, but therefore lower, becauseof a deficiency and weakness in the vegetative faculty. Andusually if one stalk hath the ear smutty, all that arise from thesame root are infected, yet it falls out (though rarely)chat some-times one side of the ear is good com, and the other bag', forone fide Wows, and the other doth not, and whatsoever blowsnot,wiH be smutty. .

Many yeats together I suffered much damage by it, butknew not how to remedy myself, but after the projection of

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