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^^periments 

 e height, 



P.s^i throuoh 

 he bud 



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of 



as the 



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3 on oak. 



reatervigour,a3 



acv. 



ount prefers 

 r are not tok 

 .V Ihoots in tlis 

 :ce, and the tree 



than if it re- 



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Earth ^ndWa- 



nuchoftheiiu- 



the new buds, 



)nly be replaced 



lus tran 



fplantei 

 fhould 2t 



above de- 

 crenated^l 



iliage, 



heory 



. oxy 



:le ow 



the UPP^^ 



the ^^f\ 



-iture 



nutf 



:he 



brai^ 



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Sect. IX. 2. 10. 



SEEDS, "BUDS, BULBS. 



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lopped durhig the winter, the remainder will protrude more vigorous 



ihnnt^- as their (hare of the referved nutriment will be - 



10. 



Th 



mbilical veffels of the new buds of decid 



trees. 



hich are analogous to thofe which permeate the lobes of the feed, 



e extended downward in the bark about midfummer, and terminate 



rertain refervoirs of nutriment, which are at this time fecreted from 



1 



This bark 



the vegetable blood oxygenated in th 



fifts of an intertexture of the caudexes of the prefent 



were buds in the lafl fummer, ai 



d are now ad 



hich 



etable beings; 

 d of the umbilical 



and of the embryon caudexes of the new buds ; ai 

 velTels of the new buds ; it will become alburnum or fap-wood dui 

 in^ the autumn or enfuing fpring, and will be gradually covered ov( 

 wi\h a'new bark confiftino; of the mature caudexes of the new bud 



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o 



D 



W 



while that, which was the alburnum in the preced 

 l^ecome a circle of lifelefs timber, interior to the circle of alburnum. 

 The veffels of this new bark, though they confift of the caudexes 

 of the individual adult leaves, and the umbilical vcflels of the ind 

 vidua! young buds, evidently inofc 



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becaufe 



hen fome buds 



bbed off or deftroyed, thofe in their vicinity grow with 



o 



vio-our ; as the daily experience of pruning all kinds of 

 The facility with which the ruptured veffels of vegetabl 

 into each other, or grow togeth 



nofcul 



b 



! 



rrefponds with that of animal 

 elFels in their inflamed ffate. Thus a hud taken from one tree, and 

 iferted into any part of the bark of another tree. of the fame genus, 



rafted on it, prefently receives nutriment, and grows to it by 

 ;iprocal inofculation of the wounded veffels, in the fame man- 

 a tranfplanted tooth ; or as the fingers are liable to grow to- 

 ■ after having heen excoriated by a burn; or as the inflamed 

 lungs and pleura are liable to adhere, and interrx^ix their blood-veiTels* 



oee Se^l. III. 2. 7. 



During the winter, when the leaves die and fall off, the arterial and 



xenous.iyftems, which belonged to them, ^and which compofed the 



greatefk 



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