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PRODUCTION 



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Similar to this circumflance of the tulip 



I the feed, produce a 



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th 



buds of 



%vhich fir ft arife fron 

 perfe<il than themfel 



lly oth 



till 



iicration 



d afterward 



n' bud 

 ey acquire the power "of femi 



more 



i 



only 



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flower-bud is formed, which 



in fome trees the central bud oa the 



pear 



and on the fpurs of appl 



as in 



emity of the twig, 

 but alfo many leaf-bud 



of greater or lefs maturity are formed around the principal, or fl 



bud 



dex, 

 prod 



which require more or fewer years, before they obtain the ma 

 ty neceflary to produce a flower. 

 It was fhewn in Sea. VII. i. 7. that every part of the lono- cau 



ding from a bud 



fummit of a tree to th 



bud, like every part of the broad caudex of a tulip 



but thofe produced in the bofom of the leaf I believe generally to be 



nd thofe which arife from a lower part of the 



and will in confequence require more fuc- 

 ceffive buds to proceed from them, before they can form a flower. 

 Thus when the whole branches of a fruit-tree are lopped from the 



the moft mature 

 caudex to be lefs mat 



trunk, the new buds are produced from the lower parts of th 



dexes of the branch-buds, which have been lopped oiF, and are th 

 fore an ' 



flower. 



mmature progeny, and require fome years before they 



It hence appears, that a number of buds or bulbs in all veer 



CD 



mufl: fucceed each oth 



quent fr 



be 



o 



from the feed, before a flower a 

 ated ; but that thefe fucceffive g 



o 



d confe 



are more numerous or fewer hi fome plants than in others ; that they 

 in fome plants may only fucceed each other annually ; in others per- 

 haps many of them in the fame fummer, as in the herbaceous plants, 



heat 



d in thofe trees, whofe 



divided from each oth 



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have th 



HI vines. 



And 



pith 



ftly, that the number 



of thefe fucceffive generations, or the times of their produdion, wh 



ther only annually, or many of them in one fummer, may be dimi- 

 nished 



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