The visible cause of this Globular Figure, is the _Flower_; or the Inosculation of all the main Branches at the _Stool_ of the _Flower_; and upon the fall of the _Flower_, the obtuseness, and with Wind and Sun, as it were the searing of their several ends: For thus the _Sap_ entring the _Fruit_, being not able to effect, either a Disunion, or a shooting forth of the said Branches, and so to carry on their growth in length; they must thus of necessity be enarch’d, and with the _Parenchyma_ more and more expand themselves. Whereas were they dispos’d and qualified otherwise, than as is said, instead of forming a Fruit within bounds, they would run out into all extravagance, and even into another little Tree or Leafy growth. To the _Seed_, the _Fruit_ is serviceable; First, in order to its being supply’d with a due and most convenient _Sap_, the greater and less elaborated part thereof being, in its passage towards the _Seed_, thereinto received; the _Fruit_ doing the same office to the _Seed_, which the _Leaves_ do to the _Fruit_; the _Sap_ in the _Fruit_ being in a laxe comparison, as the _Wine_; and that for the _Seed_, a small part of the highest Spirit rectified from it. So likewise for its Protection, in order to the prosperous carrying on and perfecting of its generation, and security being perfected. Which protection it gives not only to the Seminal _Sap_ and _Seed_ it self; but alwaies also to its _Seed-Branch_. Thus we see an _Apple_, besides that it is it self of ample compass, for the sake of its _Seed_, hath likewise its _coar_; as if it were not sufficient, that the Walls of their Room are so very thick, unless also wainscotted. In a _Pear_ again, where the _Parenchyma_ is of less compass than that of an _Apple_, to what protection this affords, that of the _Calculary_ is super-added. But in a _Plum_, where the _Parenchyma_ is exceeding tender, and in a _Peach_, which hangs late, and till Autumn Frosts approach, we have not only the Rubbish of a _Calculary_ but stout Stone-Walls. Within which also, not only the _Seed_ it self; but the _Seed-Branch_ is evermore immur’d. Lastly, in a _Nut_, where the _shell_ being not surrounded with a _Parenchyma_, that protection is wanting without, ’tis answer’d by an ample _Pith_ within it; and the _seed-Branch_ likewise included, not meerly in the Body of the Shell, as in a _Plum_, but within the _pith_ it self. So necessary is this design that what the Hen by Incubation or Hovering, is to the Egg or Chick; that the whole _Fruit_, by comprehension, is to the _Seed_. CHAP. VII. _Of the Seed._ As the Original, so the ultimate end & Perfection of _Vegetation_ is the _Seed_. How it is the former, and in its state apt for _Vegetation_, hath already been seen. How the latter, and in its state of Generation, we shall now lastly enquire. In doing which, what in the other state was either not distinctly existent, or not so apparent, or not so intelligible, will occur.