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Sect. XV. i. 2. 



OF 



FRUITS. 



381 



fan 



y 



and the time, when they become capable of propagathig their 



fpecies. 



2. 0/ Rcot-fcions 



Root-fuckers from bearing; bur-apples, or from bear 



odl 



a 



are 



believed to become fruitful as foon as grafts from thofe 



becaufe they are a viviparous offspring, as well as the fc 



from the branch 



nd are therefore not fimilar to the ovipa 



progeny, or the young trees prod 



ed from feed 



Th 



muft ne- 



helefs in ^rcat meafure depend upon the age of the lucker ; as 



thofe root- buds, which rife into fuckers, are not formed or generated 

 in the bofom of a leaf, but from a part of one of the long caudexes 

 of a branch-bud ; and will therefore, I fuppofe, require a fucceffion 

 of buds for fome years, before they will acquire fufficient maturity 

 produce a fl 



th 



b 



s from the bofom of 



f I 



fuppoi 



be much forwarder than the 

 s feen in the central or flowe 

 ■al bulbs from the fame caud 



ateral buds from th 

 bulb of a tulip, and 



f 



m 



Root- fuckers from 



roots 



& 



f other trees, as the rob 



fted part, which is beneath the foil 



hich have been ingrafted on 

 on the acacia, may arife ab 



: but thofe root-fuck( 



hich arife from trees, which were grafted above ground, are lim 

 the ftock, not to the fruit-bearing head; which might have b 



Id 



or 



Id appl 



d 



that' cafe produce crab-pe 



b-apples, with thorny ft 



When a branch of a vine, or briar, or of many other trees, is b 

 down, and a part of it inierted into the ground with its 



mit roots at the joints, and b 



fummit in 

 ' tree. So 



knobs on the bark of a bur-apple-tree, I am informed 



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Ihoot out roots, if furrounded with moift earth 



d the branch may 



be then cut off, and fuccefsfully planted 



And from almoft 



y 



joint of a 6g-tree roots will protrude, if furrounded even with a 



woollen 



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