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f buds, feems to require a lefs m 



than that, which is employed ia the fexual generation of feeds 



acquired for th 



feems 



whence a kind of puberty of the plant 

 production of the feminal or amatorial progeny 



be 



t) 



hich appears 



the 

 be 



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transformation of caterpillars into butterflies^ w 

 efFe£led folely for the purpofe of propagation. 



M. Speechly, in his treatife on the Culture of the Vine, p 

 feems to fay, that feedling vines muft be three or four years old, be- 

 fore they produce fruit ; whereas a planted fcion, or an ingrafted 

 one, from an aged tree, will produce fruit the firft or fecond year; 

 and according to the obfervatibns of Mr. Knight, feedling apple-trees 

 will not bear fruit till they are twelve or fourteen years old ; and other 

 fruit-trees in fimilar nfianner require fome years after iheir birth from 

 the feed, before they arrive at fufficient maturity to bear flowers. See 

 Sedl.VlI. I. 3. Hence he advifes the horticultor to procure fcions for 

 grafting from fuch trees as already bear fruit j but pays no regard to 



the ftock, into which they are to be inferted ; and adds, that he be- 

 lieves, if fcions from a bearing walnut or mulberry tree were in- 

 grafted on a feedhng one, that it would produce fruit in two or three 

 years ; which otherwife would not occur in lefs than twenty. Trea- 

 tife on Apple and Pear. Longman, London. And hence we fee the 



advantag-e of 



raft in 



^^ ^-. ingrarting on leedling orange or lemon-trees in our 



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feedli 



green-houfes the fcions taken from thofe, which bear fruit ; as other- 

 wife they would continue fo many years before the buds would ac- 

 quire fufficient maturity to generate flowers. 



Some have believed that young trees will bear fruit fooner, if they 



to grow quite wild in large buflies. 



are not pruned, but permitted 

 it is poffible, that this may occur either from the unfl^ilful horti- 

 cultor pruning off all the terminal twio;s, whofebuds were forwarder 



Or 



in refped to age, than the lateral ones much beneath them, 

 becaufe the great number of new leaf-buds, proceeding from an ex- 

 iiberant branching head, may fo crowd the bark of the trunk with 



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