er 



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aments 



■ the mulberry. 



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are 



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 lateral or pater 



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REPRODUCTION. 



123 



fembling the compound parent, like the different caudexes of ingraft- 

 ed trees'^; an experiment well worthy repeated obfervation. 



4. Another animal fad ought alfo to be here mentioned, that many 



js, are faid to 



r fyftem, that 



thout deflroying them, 



infeas, as common earth-worms as well as the polyp 

 poffefs fo much life throughout a great part^ of th 

 they may be cut into two or more piece 

 as each piece will acquire a new head 



th 



fea 



w 



thus become multiplied 



I new 

 How 



both 



aiy th 



d 



IS re- 



fembled by the long caudex of the buds of trees, which polTefs fuch 

 vegetable life from one extremity to the other, that when the head or 

 plume is lopped off, it can produce a new plume : and when the 



lower part is cut off, i 

 wonderfully multiplied 



produce new radicles; and may be th 



5 



Hence we acquire fome new and important ideas concerning 



the lateral generation of vegetables, and which may probably 



bute to elucidate their fexual g 



Thefe 



firff, that th 



parts of the long caudex of each new bud of an ingrafted tree, and 



onfequently of 



trees. 



fepa rated 



fecreted from th 



fpondent or adjoining parts of the long caudex of the laft year's bud 



which was its parent 



and not th 



nfiffs of the roots of each 



new bud fhot down from the pi 



or apex of 



I formerly 



fuppofed 



and that thofe 



molecules, or fibrils, fecreted from 



the caudex of the laft year's buds, adjoin and grow together beneath 

 the cuticle of the trunk of the tree, the upper ones forming the plu- 



mula of the new bud, which 



leaf 



from the atmofph 



d th 



;, to acquire oxyg 

 formins: the radicles of 



to 



p'* 



which are abforbent veffels to acquire nutriment from th 



Secondly, that every part of the 

 nfequently of all trees, 



d 



can 



caudex of an ingrafted tree, ai 

 rate or produce a new bud, when 

 the upper part of it is flrangulated with a wire or cut off, or other- 

 wife when it is fupplied more abundantly with nutriment, ventila- 



tion, and light. And th 



each 



f thefe 



R 



buds thus produced 



refembies 



