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SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS. 



Sect. IX. 2, 8/ 



flem 



P 



oduce new leaf-buds with greater fiicility 



as th 



more 



00m for their new caudexes to be generated along the defcendino- 



bark. But if a vigorous branch be bent down to the h 



or be 



low it, the bark is comprefied beneath the curve, and extended above 



d thus the produdlion of new caud 



th 



bark 



IS im- 



peded, and in confequence lefs leaf-buds and more flower-buds 



be generated, or the former converted into the latter; which req 



no new caudexes. And on this circumdance principally depends 



Sement of wall-fi 



o 



d of efp 



For the purpofe of thus converting leaf-buds into flower-buds Mr. 

 VVhitmilladvifed to bind fomeof the moil vigorous fhoots with flrono- 



O 



d even fome of th 



o 



d Mr.Warner cuts, what 

 ' tree; or fcores the bark 



he calls, a wild- worm about the body of the tree; or 

 quite to the wood like a fcrew with a fharp knife. Bradley on Ga 

 dening, Vol. II. p. 155. ' Mr. Fitzgerald produced flowers and fri 

 en ftandards and wall-trees by cutting off a cylinder of the bark, thr 



four inch 



G 



Tranf. Ann. 1761) as defcribed 



and replacing it with proper band 



(Philof. 



Sed. XV. I. 3. of this work 



M. BufFon produced the fame effed by a flralght bandage put round 



a branch. Ad Paris, A 



7 



o 



J 



8; and concludes that an ino-rafted 



branch bears better from its vefl'els being comprelTed by the callus p 

 duced,. where the grafted fcion joins the flock. 



■r. 



It is 



tended 



off eafie 



c 



fto 



mary 



be felled 



debark c 

 the enfu 



th 



feafon 



o 



d the fap-wood 



ring, which are in> 

 becaufe the bar.k comes 

 )r alburnum, is believed 



become more durable, if the trees remain till the end of fumm 



k*^ 



from th 



pendi 



th 



h 



fap-juice in the enfuing fo 



liage, and thus being lefs liable to ferment and putrify. ■ Th 

 thus flripped of their bark put forth fhoots as ufual with aco 



trees^. 



the fixth, feventh, and eighth joint, 1 

 I examined the joints of the debarked 



es ; but in the branch 

 were much fhorter th; 



s- 



th.ofe of other oak 



the acorns were more numerous 



d no» 

 11 ew^' 



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brai 



r 





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tha 

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tri2 

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 bk 



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