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UMBILICAL VESSELS. Sect. III. II. 7. 



from this experiment it may be concluded, that in years of fcarcity 

 the fap-wood of thofe trees, which are not acrid to the tafte, might af- 

 ford nutriment by the preparation of being rafped to powder, and 

 made into bread by a mixture of flour, or by extrading their fugar 

 and mucilage by boiling in water, as mentioned in Zoonomia, Part III. 

 Article I. 2. ^. 6. , 



Now as the embryon buds of deciduc 

 formed about midfummer, fecreted by 



o 



f th 



imate are 



glands in th 



dex of the p 



leaf-bud, and are fupplied 



ith d 



nou- 



(hment from the fame fo 



having yet fhot out radicles of 



their own from the lower end of their long caudexes into the earth 

 they may be readily tranfplanted at this feafon from one tree to c 



ther by 



different parts of the fame 



as 



th 



e 



caudex of the young bud of one tree will readily pnite with th 



new caudex of that of anoth 



and as they can be removed 



e during the early ftate of their growth along with a part of the bark 

 ly, as fcarcely any alburnum is yet formed beneath the bark of the 



young tw 



from whence the bud 



B 



after their greater maturity, fo that many buds exifl 



twio;, or fcion, and are already furniflied with radicles paffing dow 



into 



the ground, as in the enfuing fpring, it becomes neceffary 



& 



raft them by cutting off a part of the alburnum, as well as of th 



th the bark 



bark of the new bud ; and to apply thefe in contaft 

 and alburnum of another tree, to which they may grow by inofcu- 

 lation of veffels; whence it appears why budding or inoculation muft 

 be performed foon aft 



\ 



midfummer, and 



ingrafting in the early 



g' 



the former the buds continue to grow by the jund 



of th 



ef. 



of the caudex or bark veffels alone with thofe of the tree into which 



they are inferted, and in the latter by the inofculation 



fels with thofe of the bark and alburnum of the tree, to which they 



are applied and bound. 



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