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Sect. IX. i. $ 



SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS 



47 



climate, and would perifli if the feeds were fown in autumn 

 it is naturally fcattered on the earth 



Thofe which are ufually termed biennial plan 



wh 



differ from th 



former, firft in the time of fowing the feed, which is generally in th 



early autumn, as foon as it is ripe, as of turneps, carrots, 



and thus thefe produce their flowers in the fecond year after the feed 



heat 



fown, which has given them the name of bienn 



perhaps 



of them, lay up a refervoir of 



during the fummer or autumn in th 



roots. 



Th 



Many of thefe 

 itious matter 

 nutriment is 



fecreted from the vegetable blood, which is previoufly oxygenated 



t purpofe in the large leaves, which generally furround the 



for that 



r 



caudex of the plant, as in turneps and 



Thefe leaves fur 



the winter in many plants, which the more fucculent ftems probably 



would not ; and the nutriment depofited in the root i 

 the growth of the flem and the produdion of feed in 



expended in 

 the enfuing 



fpring. 



As in thefe vegetables one of our fummers is too (hort for 



their o-rowth from the feed to the frudification ; and it is for th 



fed 



refervoir of nutriment that thefe plants are generally cultivated 

 But thofe plants, which are termed perennial, when firft 

 from feed, are many of them fome years before they produce flowers 

 Some of them form bulbous roots. 



as the tulip, hyacinth 



onion 



* 



which are three or four years before they flower, during which time 

 I believe all the bulbs die annually, producing one larger than that of 



the preccd 



year 



d perhaps fome fmall 



wh ic h 



ally increafe in fize till they flower. The fame occurs in potatoe 

 5ts raifed from feed, which do not flower as I am informed till thi 



nd then only thofe which feemed of flronger or 



for 



third year, ; 

 warder growth. 



Other perennial plants have palmated or branching roots ; in fome 

 of thefe, as in feedling apple-trees, the flower is faid not to appear till 



yea 



ft 





the feed 



ually dying and prod 



f o v^' n 

 buds c 



th 



U 



buds "neverthelefs 



perhaps more 



perfect 



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