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SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS. 



Sect. IX. 3. 7. 



not therefore (hoot down new 



the produdion of new ftems, which 



which are necelTary 



thefe 



fuckers or root-fc 



branches but 



But if 



grain be buried an inch deep in the earth, a (hoot rifes 



from the roots, which idue from the feed, which is an elongation of 

 the caudex, and puts forth a leaf in contadwith the furface of the 



earth 



this leaf and ftem conftitute the primary plant, and 



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new buds, which put forth new roots defcendino: into the earth 



thus three or four or more fuckers, or new plants, arife round 



a 



which was contained in the feed 



of 



hence the appearance 



roots, which fome authors have named the feminal and 



co- 



ronal roots, 

 aware of tl 



The 



o 



Mr.Tuil feems himfeif to have been 



m 



ftanc 



e, as he fay 



h 



Hufbandry 



<( 



Lfate 



planted wheat fends out no root above the grain before fpring, but is 



nouri(hed all winter by a fingle thread proceeding from the grain up 

 to the furface.'* 



This explains the prodigious multiplication of the ftems of wheat, 

 which may be produced by tranfplanting it three or four times in the 

 fummer, autumn, and enfuing fpring ; for if it be fo managed, that 

 a fecon'd joint of each young ftem be buried in the foil, or brou<Tht 

 even into contact with it, fo that new roots may firike down into the 

 earth ; the caudex of the leaf, which furrounds this joint, will 

 rate many new buds, which will thus become fuckers, or root-fcions, 

 and rival their parent ; and may be again tranfplanted or earthed up 



• times with wonderful increafe. Mr. Charles Miller of 



o 



three or fou 



Cambridge fowed fome wheat on the fecond of J 



766, and 



the eighth of Auguft one plant was taken up and feparated into 



ghteen parts and replanted ; thefe plants were again taken up and 



/veen the middle of September and the middle of Odo- 



divided bet 



ber, and again planted feparately to (land the winter, and this fecond 

 divifion produced fixty-feven plants. They were again taken up, and 

 divided between the middle of March and the middle of April, and 



8 produced 



