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under-fhrubby herbaceous nature, as al- 

 though they become fomewhat ligneous 

 or woody; they are not durable, beingon- 

 ly annual, or, at molt, biennial; rifingfrom 

 the root one year, and the next emitting 

 many fmall lateral or fide moots, bear- 

 ing the fruit the fame Summer, then to- 

 tally die to the root in Winter following ; 

 fucceeded, however, always by a plen- 

 tiful fucceilion of young (terns from the 

 fame root or ftool in Summer, for next 

 year's bearing ; every winter the old de- 

 cayed items, which bore laft Summer, 

 are retrenched to the bottom, to give 

 place to the young fucceflional fupply, 

 which, at the fame time, are thinned to 

 from three or four, to five or fix of the 

 ftrongeft, on each main root or ftock, 

 and their weak tops generally pruned 

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