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Sect. XV. i. i 



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FRUITS. 



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(hed or accelerated by art j and that in attending to all thefe 



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{lances coniifts the fuccefsful management of fruit 



inns trees in this climate 



The new buds on decid 



about Midfum 



obicrved in Se6l. IX. 2. 9 



by the Linnean fchool, that many of them at 



ffeded 



become 



me may 



leaf- buds or flower-bud 



produced 

 nd it is beUeved 



be fo 

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feafon 



therefore the produdion of buds on wall-trees, or efp 

 ftandards, (hould employ the attention of the horticultoi 



thofe feedhng-trees prod 



f-buds only, which are too )' 



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to produce flower-buds ; and as the particular fliooto or buds of other 

 trees are not fo mature as to produce flower-buds ; and laftly, as fome 

 trees flourifli too vigoroufly, as it is termed, to produce flower-buds. 

 The thinc^s to be attended to are the age of the tree, from which 

 the ^raft was taken, which now forms a branch ; the maturity of 

 the particular buds, which you wi(h to encourage ; and the vigour of 

 the whole tree, or its tendency to produce leaf-buds in preference to 

 flower-buds. 



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TO PRODUCE FRUIT-BEARING TREES. 



I. There arc four methods of procuring fruit-trees for the pur- 

 pofes of horticulture, by feeds, by root-fuckers, by planted fcions, or 

 by ingrafted fcions. 



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Of Seedling Threes. 



It was obferved above in Sedion IX. i?.. i. and 3. 6. that in tulip 



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d even in potatoes and onions, the b 



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years 



per, before they prod 



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d that the fame happens to the buds of feedl 



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which are many years a fnccellion of leaf-buds only, before the pro 

 pagation of a fmgle flower-bud ; for the power, which produces th 



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