The Frur1t-GarvdEN Tuftrated. " 
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SOME: Kinds of Fruits difcover their Embrio Shoots, and Fruits, 
“within the Bud, vifible to the naked Eye, without the Help of a Micro- 
{cope ; as the. Bud. of a Mulberty, flic thro’ from. the .Vertex..to. its 
Bale, exhibits the Fruit with its next adjoining Leaves, which Nature 
has carefully placed, not only to wrap up and preferve the tender Fruit 
during the Winter's Cold, ro¥attract Nourifhment, and perfpire away the 
Crudities of the Sap, but to expand themfelves in fuch Manner, fo as to 
preferve the tender Sap-Veflels of the Fruits, duting their Growths, from 
the drying Winds and {corching Rays of the Sun. 
THE Growth of Branches are always proportionable to the Nature 
of the Seafon in which they are produced. we Springs do always pro- 
duce the longeft and largeft Shoots, becaufe their foft duétile Parts do 
then continue longer in a moift tender State ; but in a dry Spring the 
Fibres foon harden, and ftop the further Growth of the Shoot, their 
Sap-Veflels being dried by their great Perfpiration, caufed by the extra- 
ordinary Heat. The moft genial Heat for our Englifh Plants is from 
17 to 30 Degrees ; which Heat generally happens in the Months of 
May and Fune, when Plants in general ourifh moft. 
A COLD Spring has a worle Effect on the tender Parts of Shoots, 
than a cold Autumn ; for as the young Shoots of Plants have a greater 
Proportion or Quaneiey-of-Salt_and Water in them at their Spring, than 
“1 the Autumn, they are more liable to be injard-by»Gold.than in the 
Autumn, when they are in a more advanced Age, and their Quantity 
of Oil increafed proportionable to their Degree of Maturity : For the 
great Work of ‘Nature, in bringing Fruits and Seeds to Maturity, is, 
to combine together in a ‘due Proportion, the more active and noble 
Principles of Sulphur and Air, thac conftirute Oil, which, in its moft 
refined State, is never found without fome Degree of Earth and. Salt in 
it. And the more perfect this Maturity is, the more firmly are thofe 
Principles united. Vide Vegetable Staticks, p. 322. 
FROM what has been deliver'd in refpeé to the Growth of Shoots 
in a dry Spring, it appears, That if weak Trees are then oftentimes re- 
frefhed with Waterings, fo as to keep their foft duétile Parts fupple, ‘twill 
greatly add to their Growth. And on the contrary, the Growth of 
luxuriant Trees, for want of fuch Moifture, are, by a dry Spring, retarded, 
and thereby made fruitful, wae 
t GHAP. 
