2p6 A General Treatise of

“ have some Instances of this at Mr. Fair child’s“ at Hoxton , and other Places.

“ The Method of inoculating of Plants is“ not unlike the Manner of inoculating the" Small-pox on Humane Bodies : We open the" Bark of the Plant we design to inoculate?“ ’till we discover the flowing Juices from those“ Vessels which act as Veins, and then imist e '" diately apply the Bud with Part of the Bark“ which joins it to the Place we have open’d ?“ observing, that the Bark adjoining to the“ Bud has those Parts with it, that according“ to Nature’s Rules should next be placed to“ what I call the Veins of a Tree ; we then“ bind it on, and let it remain till it begin 5" to grow. And in all the Experiments“ make, according to the above Directions?

we shall find the Plants or Lions will p ar>" take of the striped Colour or Variegation>" which among the Virtuosi in Gardening is s°" much admired, that a Plant whose Leaves“ are well striped with White or Yellow, vd"“ sell for more than twenty times the Vain®" of it when its Leaves are plain ; the strips“ Hollies, Oranges, Lemons, Myrtles, with" above an hundred more Sorts of strips" Plants, which Mr. Fairchild has collected?“ are so many Witnesses of it.

" From these Observations I think it is aS“ evident that the Sap circulates in Plants, a5“ that the Blood circulates in Animals, an“ that there is the fame Possibility of ing ra ^“ ing Distempers, and vitiating the Juices J>" Vegetables, as of poisoning or infecting

Blood in Animal Bodies : And that leads t° e^ further to consider of some new Experi^fP^