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Sect. XV 



OF 



FRUITS 



93 



/ 



Add to this, that 



ly the feeds requii 



no 



ud 



to 



pafs down the trunk, but that probably the ftamina and coral of each 

 flower ftrike their roots only into the blood- vefTels, which --'-'--- 



com 



with the brades, like moffes or fungufes, which 



O 



drum 



like cufcuta, dodder, vifcum, nainetoe, and tillandfia, and epid 



therefore require no caudexes and radicles to pafs dc 



d 



\ 



the ground 



more difficult for new 



Whence it appears, that by render , ^ , 



buds to acquire new caudexes along the branches or trunk from th 

 fummit into ^^^ -mnnrl. the tree will be neceffitated to prod— 



flower-buds in preference to leaf-buds ; a theory, which was firft de 

 livered in the Botanic Garden, Vol. I. canto 4. 1. 47^, note, and ex 

 plains the whole art of the management of fruit-trees. ^ 



Vegetables therefore in refpeft to their mode of propa-H.n ... .. 



ther viviparous or oviparous 



The live progeny of vegetabl 



con- 



flfts of the buds, which rife on their branches in th 



bofom of each 



leaf, or on its long caudex extending down the bark of trees ; or 



which arife on the bulbs, knobs, wires, or fcions, from the broad 

 dex on the roots of herbaceous plants 



tables 

 flowe 



w 



The egg-progeny of 

 the previous apparatus of the 



and concomitant nutriment in the fruit and cotyledons. And 



faid to be in greater vigour, when 



fifts in th 



feed 



as plants, or parts of plants, J ^ , • ., 



the viviparous progeny is prevalent ; as the caudexes of this adheren 

 offspring form a new bark, and thence thicken and ftrengthen th 



nk and branches ; and to be in lefs vigour when the ovipa 



progeny is prevale 

 quently require no 



: ; as 

 caude 



the feeds fall from the tree. 



and 

 d thi 



fe 



to 



thicken and ftrengthen the tree. 



form a new bark 

 We fhall crenerally ufe the word 



parous inftead of vigorous, when applied to vegetables, which 



N-^ 



leaf-buds principally ; and ovipa 



ftead of weak 



h 



pplied to vegetables, which generate flower-buds principally;' for th 



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