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the contrary feems to appear, where more 



fcions have been 



fted on lefs vigorous ftocks 



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pple- 

 fcions on oab-ftocks ; where in a few years the part above the g.aft- 

 cd joint becomes much larger iu diameter than that below it. 



Grafted fcions fucceed well in general on trees of the fanae genus, 

 as in the common ingraftment of fruit-trees ; fo the laurel prunus 



lauro-cerafus. will grow on the common cherry prunus cerafus, and 



But there are faid to be inftances alfo 



ojtccefs i7"the"ingraftment of trees not only of different genera., 

 but even of different orders, and claffes ; as 1 have been mformed, that 



apple-fcion 

 cbrvlus. 



pyrus mains, have grown, when ingrafted on hazels 



And 



of th 



fathers of the Carthufian order is faid 



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ave fucceeded in graftin 

 {famine on an orange. 



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Travels in France and Italy, by E.Wright 



It 



hence probable, that many 



difcoveries might be 



ade by 



more frequent experiments on this fubjea. , , . i 



It neverthelefs appears, that in grafted trees, though the ftock a 

 nually becomes covered with a new bark, as well as the graft, yet 



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does not ch 



any new 



which come out 



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flora the ftock afterwards, are fimilar to the flock, not to the 



and in many trees the graft grows fo much fatter as to become nearly 



of double 

 cherry 



diameter of the ftock, as is frequently feen m 

 and is fpoken of in Sed. VII. i. 7 



Thus the buds of fruit-trees, like the bulbs of tulips, when raifed 

 from feed, annually improve in their colour, lenc 

 often in the fhape of their leaves, for a certain number of years 



th, thicknefs 



then acqui 



a 



femal 



claffes of monoecia, and dioecia 



f reprodudl 

 both, as in hermaphrodite flow 



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and 

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After this period the central buds and bulbs annually produced 



cry refpea fimilar to their parents 



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mentioned in Sea.VlI 



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pt in the nearer progrefs to old age of the tree, or of the bu^b-p 

 and the confequent tendency to hereditary difeafes. 



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