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128 



ORGANS 



OF 



Sect. VII. 3. 9, 10, ' 



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This then is the great fecret of nature ; more living particles 

 are produced by the powers of vitality in the fabrication of the vege- 

 table blood, than are neceflary for nutrition or refloration of decom- 



pofing org 



Thefe are fecreted, and detruded 



ally, and 



produce by their combination a new 



of trees over the old 



Thefe 



ganization beneath the 

 jw combinations of vital 



fibrils and molecules acquire new appetencies 



with new propenfit 



d thus poffefs th 



, or fabricate molecules 

 power of forming the 



leaf or lungs at one extremity of the new caud 



and the radicles 



bforbent vefTels at the other end 



d fome of them 



the 



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;ntral buds which terminate the branches, finally form the fexual or- 



ins of reprodudion, which conflitute the flower. 



That new organizations of the growing fyftem acquire new ap- 

 petencies appears from the produdtion of the pafCon for generation, 

 as foon as the adapted organs are complete ; and from the defire of 

 iadefcent females to fuckle their ofFspring, and alfo from the variation 

 of the palate, or defire for particular kinds of food, as we advance in 

 life, as from milk to flefh. Thus as a popular allulion, and not as 

 a philofophical analogy, we may again be allowed to apply to 

 combinations of chemiftry ; where two different kinds of particles 

 unite, as acids and alkalies, a third fomething is produced, which 

 poirefTes attradions diflimilar to thofe of either of them ; and that 



the 



new organizations form new molecules appears 



from the fecret 



of the feminal and uterine glands, when they have acquired their 

 maturity ; and from the breafls of ladefcent females. 



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10. In the lateral propagation of vegetable buds as the fuperfluous 



fibrils or molecules, which were fabricated in the blood 

 from livine organs, ai 



detached 



living organs, and poffefs nutritive or formative appetencies and 

 propenfities, and which were more abundant than were required for 



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the nutrition of the parent vegetable bud, when it had obtained its 



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full growth, were fecreted by innumerable glands on the various parts 



of its furface beneath the general cuticle of the tree, and there em- 

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