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But k is moft certain, that thefe are the genera! 

 methods,' and thefe contrivances of the eruption of 

 Buds, ferve for divers excellent ends exceeding fitly, 

 and fo are arguments, ("how poor and inconhderable 

 foever thefe. ObfervaiioiK may feem) that they came 

 not out thus fry the lucky julUings and Humbling of 

 blinde chance,, but by the Prm^A&nce of a mod Pow- 

 erful, Skilful, and Wife Mart and Author. 'For 

 they ferve firft to procure a fit and proportionable 

 fhade for the . Stalk* and Fruit j neither of which in 

 their tendernefs,can endure the fcorching Sun-beams, 

 for by keeping this method and order, they commu- 

 nicate their fhade to all parts of the Tree or Plant 5 

 whereas, fhould they break out in a difodfcriy failiion, 

 fome parts of the Plant, ancKome Fruit would be ex- 

 pofed to all weather, where no Buds or Leaves coma 

 forth ; other parts would be too much ftiadowed by 

 the two thick eruption of Buds. This order likewife 

 fets out the Boughs and Branches of each Tree into 

 fucb portions, that one may not eafily fret upon an- 

 other , or gall its neighbor, but grow in a diftin6t 

 room, every Branch having his proportionable allow- 

 ance in* that circumference which the whole Tree 

 takes up, whereby it may, without any impediment 

 to others, grow to a convenient bignefs ; otherwife 

 came many Buds out together without methods they 

 could never arrive at any bignefs in their future 

 growth, nor attain to good Fruit, or pleafant Leaves 

 and Fiowers,but would run out into fuch thick Crows- 

 Nefts, as I have obferved fometimes to happen in 

 Plum-Trees by an error or mif chance of nature^ in 

 the parturition or bringing forth of the Germensv 

 The obfervation likewife of thefe methods muff needs 

 bg of ufe to the Equilibration and uprightnefs of 



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