cdownward, -efter the fofi Year. 393 
wered many years after its. infection. Here the communication 
between . the fteck and the bud is deftzoyed : for, if the fap 
penetrated this gum, dt. would diffolve it, and the bud would 
falloff; and there can certainly no fibres be fent from the root 
to feed a bud, which nature had not placed there. Nothing 
but experiment. could inducc a belief, that a bud, thus fituated, 
"Would Stow, ‘become a tree, Dloffiom and bear fruit. Let us 
fee how buds grow in the fituation affigned them by nature. 
The largenefs of the bud, and the freedom with which it 
fhcots, renders the peach-tree a proper fubje& of this enquiry. 
Early i in the fpring, when the bud firft begins to fwell, wc fhall 
find one or more fibres fhooting from it downward. Thefe 
Aibres are fo large, below the bud, as apparently 4 to fwell the 
bark, and on removing the bark the fibres may be plainly feen 
‘by the. naked eye. Whoever carefully ‘ examines this fact, will 
carcely doubt that this i is really the manner in which buds be- 
iginto. grow. Inoculations having the fame power of fending 
-out fibres from themfíclves as buds, i in their natural fituations, 
need no nourifhment from the {tock on which they, are fixed ; 
"butt, becomes the quettion, rom whence i i$ their pouifhmept 
derived. ? : 
A carious yellow carnation, prefected to a pay at m 
i Dd in'the year 1778, being tranfplanted very. early in the 
fpring, and the. weather proving yery cold, he was obliged to 
take it into the houfe, and keep it in a room where fire was 
Kept. Notwithftanding his utmoft care in keeping the earth 
well watered, the plant declined, the leaves -became foft, . and 
zefted on the earth, and the plant. fhewed. every fympton of ap- 
proaching death, In this fate, having bended twigs over the 
i hevwet a thick tow-cloth and threw over the plant, which 
Bbb formed 
