58 OECONOMY 



§- 6. 



The Vegetable Kingdom. 



Propagation. 



Anatomy abundantly proves, that all plants 

 are orga-nk^ and living bodies ; and that all or- 

 ganic bodies are propagated from an egg has- 

 been fufficiently demonilrated by the induflry 

 of the moderns. We therefore the rather, ac- 

 cording to the opinion of the fkiifuU, rejed 

 the aequivocal generation of plants -, and the 

 more fo, as it is certain that every living thing 

 is produced from an egg. Now the feeds 

 oi ^vegetables 2LrQ Q2i\\tdi tggs ', thefe are diffe- 

 rent in every different plants that the means 

 being the fame, each may multiply its ipecies, 

 and produce an offspring like its parent. We 

 do not deny, that very m^ny plants pulh forth 

 from their roots frefh offsets for two or more 

 years. Nay not a few plants may be propa- 

 gated by branches, buds, fuckers and leaves 

 fixed in the ground, as likewife many trees. 

 Hence their ftems being divided into branches, 

 may be looked on as roots above ground ; for 

 In the fame way the roots creep under ground ; 



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