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INDIVIDUALITY 



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ill the earth with a glafs cup inverted over it, to prevent the exh 

 tion from being at firft greater than its power of abforption ; or 

 be inferted into the bark of another tree, it will grow, and become a 

 plant in every refpea like its parent. This evinces that every bud 

 of a tree is an individual vegetable being ; and that a tree therefore 

 is a family or fwarm of individual plants, like the polypus, with its 



young growing out 



of its fides, or like the branching cells of th 



ral- infect 

 The prefe 



moft 



pproved method of propagating vines in h 



fes confifts in cutting off a fingle eye of a vine-ftalk with about 



an 



h of the ftem above the ey 



d 



th 



hes bel 



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it : and fetting this aflant in the bark-bed with the eye about an inch 

 or lefs beneath the furface,pointfng upwards ; and I have feen a quick- 

 fet or hawthorn hedge, cretacgus, propagated in the fame manner by 

 planting twigs in the ground with one bud only above the foil. 

 - Mr. Barns, in a treatife on Propagating Fruit-trees (1759, 

 win, London) aflerts, that he cut a branch into as many pieces 



Bald 



there were buds or leaves upon it ; and wipino- 



o 



th 



two wounded 



ends dry, he quickly applied to each a cement previoufly warmed, 

 which confifted chiefly of pitch, and planted them in the earth with 



xinfailing fuccefs 



The ufe of this cement I fufped 



fift 



preventing the bud from bleeding to death, though the author afcribes 



feptic quality. And laftly, in the inoculation and ingraft- 



five or fix different kinds of pears are frequently 



one tree, which could not then properly be 



o 



of fruit 



feen on the branches of 

 termed an individual beiw^ 



2. 



When old oaks, or willows, lofe by decay almoft all their folid 



ood, it frequently happens, that a part of the (hell 



f th 



flem continues to flourifh with a few healthy branch 



Wh 



appears, 



and the root -fibres 



that no part of the tree is alive but the buds, and the bark 



that the bark is only an intertexturc of th 



dexes' 



