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SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS 



feed 



Sect. IX. j 



hich produce flowers and 



o 



fummer from the feed 



her leaf-bulbs in the fecond 



And laftlj, that it is probable, that all b 



ke the buds of deciduous trees, and perhaps of 



ones alfo, are properly fpeaking biennial pi 

 fummer and perifli in the next. 



as 



ej rife 



o 



In tulip-roots, which have been planted too d 



d in onion-roots, a vegetable cord 



procefs 



fometimes fee 



bout an inch long to arife from the caudex beneath the bafes of 



cylindrical 



and to form a new bulb 



the natural growth of the roots of potatoes 



Similar to this appea 



from the old root, after the leaves are expanded 



fpermatic cord arifes 



genate the vegetable blood 



d a new tubei 



generated 



the ail 

 bulbo 



o oxy- 

 root is 



This mode of producing diflant roots is exadly 



b 



d by the wires of flrawberr 



may b 



refembled above 



f 



cords, which depofit a new vegetable being on the earth, and fupp 

 It like a bud on a tree, till it can flrike roots into the foil and elev 



The final 



th 



caufe of the length of thefe fubt 

 d aerial fpermatic cords is evidently the defign of ph 



at a 



diflance from their pare/ 



a 



th 



they may not incommode each other, but may both of them more ..«- 

 dily acquire nutritious juices from the earth, and the ventilation 7nd 

 funfliine of the atmofphere. 



Thefe embryon vegetables in the various bulbous and tuhernn. mn.. 



are 



y different {lates of maturity 



the buds of diife 



trees ; thus in the potatoe the eorculum or plumula of the new plant 

 only is vifible, furrounded with a farinaceous nutriment, as in many 

 feeds ; whereas in the tulip and hyacinth the flower of the fucceed- 



o 



year is difcernlble, as in the bud of the horfe-chefn 



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h 



pening of the feed of fome bulbous-rooted plants is fo 



ded bydeftroying the new bulbs, as in orchis; and the fl 



bulbs of other plants are made d 



by raifing them out of th 



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