^ll. 



I. 



refpeQ 

 cibU 



.^0 



penknife 

 ^cvv bud i 



e 



a 



= la(l 



1(1 



year' 



I 



icl 



J 



points 



'^ iu their 

 'ovvn with. 



1 



e pith and 

 -fnut about 

 he internal 

 e veiiels of 

 id feems to 



beneath it. 

 or fibres, or 

 buJ adher- 



sapa 



ternal 



md bulbs is 



that they 

 fruit-trees, 



offspring o( 



a 



pplled 



This 

 oducea on 



)r 



e 



trees 



uni* 



r 



to 



then^- 



aleflo 



vverS) 



'the 



fe tr^^^ 



V 



Sect. VII 



3 



REPRODUCTION 



95^^ 



This fimllarlty of buds and bulbs to their parents 

 flood only to exlft after the maturity of the plant. 



be und 



that is after it h 



produced 



fexual offspring in flowers and feed 



for a bulb 



of 



p, and a bud of a fruit- 

 very fmall, but produce 

 buds annually, for fome y 



when flrft raifed from their feeds, are 

 more improved bulbs, or improved 



hlch differ from th 



pa 



bulbs 



buds in the fi 



form, and colour of th 



^-. 



its maturity, or acquires the power of generating a fexual progen; 

 from whence it appears, that the leaf-buds of thofe trees, and the le; 

 bulbs of thofe roots, which have acquired their puberty, if it may be 

 fo called; that is, their power of generating flowers, are a more per- 

 fe6l progeny than the feeds of thofe plants, as thefe latter, when fe 



parated from their parent either by tranfpl 



by ingraft 



feed 



fexual progeny ; but the buds 



!.. The 



can immediately produce 



from many feeds are fome years before they can produce feed 

 fame is probably true of many annual or biennial plants, as of wheat 

 which produce many fucceffive buds upon each other previous to th 



fiower-bud 



ppears by the joints of th 



ftem 



hich may be 



confidered as individual plants growing on each other like the annual- 

 fucceflion of the buds of trees. 



' Another curious occurrence in this lateral produdlion of vegetables 

 by their buds has been lately publifhed by Mr. Knight in the PhiU 

 Tranf. for the year 1795, who obferves^ that thofe apple-trees, which 

 have been continually propagated" for above a century by ingraftii 



to 



thefe 



fc 



me fo dlfeafed by canker, or otherwife, that though the fruit 

 ■ of the fame flavour, the trees are not worth propagating ; as 

 i, though tranfplanted into other trees, he efteems to be 



ft 



ftill an elongation of the original tree, and mufi feel the efFe6t of 



like th 



they were taken from. If this idea (hould 



ge 



P 



further examination, th 



1 



fon to fufpe£l the fame may 



in the too long propagation of plants from bulbs and wires, as potatoe; 



and flrawberries, which may have occafioned- the curled topsof pota- 



toes 



5 



'fbis 



