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by the cold of 



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' may beffiuc'n 



.!e blood to k 

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onions 



; and ill 



,h furroundtl''^ 



bud^, or 



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knob, 



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Sect. IX. 3. 6 



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flower-bulb 

 pofition 



SEEDS, BUDS, 3ULBS. 



produced from a feed, without the previous 



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of 



or more leaf-bud 



leaf- bulbs 



d th 



thofe 



flower-buds or flower-bulbs are either produced in one geaeratlon af 



fowing the feed 



the flower-bulbs of onions, which 



o 



rid and nourithed at the bafes of the conce^.tric cylindrical leaves of 



the preceding leaf-plan 

 and flower-buds of the 



hich arofe from the feed ; or as the ftem 



which are crenerated and 



d 



P 



flied 



O 



bafe of th 



ives of the preceding leaf- 



fecondly, that they are produced in one fummer, though 



after fevlr'al generations from the feed ; as the three or four joints of 



flem of wheat,' and other graffes, which are generated and nou- 



fhed in fucceffion in 



the bofoms of four or five cylind 



one at each joint 



which alfo probably obtains in all oth 



bles, which are fupported by hollow 



ft 



divided by joints, and 



furn'iOied with leaves at thefe ftem-joints with or without branch 



In thefe plants, where there are no branch 



d two or more lateral new bud 



as tragopogon or pier 



there is Amply a new central bud 



befide the central one, where there are branch 



Or laftly 



from feeds, 



fufficient maturity to produce fexual oro;ans, or generate a flow 



here the leaf-buds or leaf-bulbs, which are produced 

 fucceed each other for fome years, before they arrive at 



the bulbs of tulips, and hyacinth 



and th 



bud 



f trees. 



as in tne duids 01 luu^s, a^i^ wj,«w. , 



Whence we at length acquire a diftina idea, why feedhngappl 



years before they bear fruit; though the buds or 



flioots taken from a tree, which already has born fruit, and ingraft 

 ed even on a young feedling-tree, (hall produce flowers in the firfl 



fecond year 



thefe buds have already acquired that ftate of per 

 feaion or maturity, which is neceflkry to the produftion of fexual o 

 feminal aeneration : and as it therefore poffelTcs the age of puberty 



or 



th 



maturity of th 



may fufped:, th 



it will fooner 



acq 



ditary difeafes confequent to too long unmixed fu 



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