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SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS 



Sect, IX. 3.7 



I am told 



d become 



a tree 



will immediately ftrike out roots, as 

 iimilar to the parent. 



In the fame manner I have been informed that if a circular rino- 

 of the bark be cut off from many trees and fhrubs, which are other! 

 wife difficult to propagate, and earth be put round the branch thus 

 decorticated a few inches above and below the wounded 



means of a garden-pot previoufly broken 



part 



gitudinally, and bound 



•gether round the branch, that roots will fhoot from the upper lip 



of the wound ; ar 



below the garden-pot, and planted with fuccefs 



d in a little time the branch may be fafely cut off 



When a few inches of the end of a branch are cut off'in thefprins 

 - common in pruning wall-trees, new buds are produced near th 



extremity, which remains; or thofe, which did exift 



greater vigour 



as they obtain fome of th 



grow w 



fhment, whicl 



fhould have fupported the buds, which were cut off*. The fame 



1 



curs in refpe<Sl: to the fuck 



produce them 

 the 



fcions of thofe trees, which 



as of elm-trees, and of fome apple-trees ; if many of 

 branches be cut away, the fuckers or root-fcions become more 



numerous, or more vig 



This explains the ufe of a practice among many farmers of eating 



In this 



down a forward crop of wheat in the fpring with fheep 



cafe the. central or upright ftem of the wheat is decapitated, and 

 many ' 



rated. 



aterai ones, or 



or grow with 



fcions, as above defcribed, become gene 



greater vigour 



acquiring additional nourifli- 

 nient from the joint, which was to have been expended in the growth 

 of the central ftem : and which appears fo diftindly in the precedin<r 



figure of a tranfplanted wheat-plant, which neverthelefs in 



which are not too forward, may be very inj 



Sea. XVI. 2. 3. 



crops 



9 



as fpoken of 



Thus the figure above alluded to explains four important circum 



cultivation of grains, that of earthing up the rows ii 



fiances in the 



7 



or 



f 



