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I. 



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Or 



ark 



ivO 



» 



■otn 



u 



rat- 

 3 of 

 fof 

 flrfl: 



ifoia 



buds 



and 



;ntly 

 ,bout 



tne 



d. 







, and 



fides 



■ pre 



be 



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I 



Sect. XV 



OF 



FRUITS 





95 



be increafed, in whatever flat 



of miniature they may be conceived 



exift 



ofD 



(hews that the ben^m a.^vation of the vernal fap-ju.cc 



trunk does not .napede the ^^^ ° ^ ^^^^ ^„ ,ffift it, refem- 



into it ; but on the contrary, that it rather PP g^^^ m. 



bling in fome meafure a cap.llary fyphon as ^f^"'' .,. 



uvT. nn^v he owino- to the vernal lap-juice aicenuiuo v 



tney may vj^ ... ^t -_ „_ii oc frrMn their beins: Pia 



the branch than the bark-veffels 



well as from their bein 



placed 



XTe iauljnd therefore lefs liable to co.preffion beneath the 



curvature, and to elongation abov 



Whence it appears, that the bending down a branch of a fru.t 

 helTw the horizon does not di.ini(h_ the -tr^n^ent P te . -^^^^^^^^ 



but rather 



creafes it 



Dr.Walker obferved thefe buds to grow 



l^Id ;::::; the extretnities .f the bended branches than 



Other parts of equal height. 

 It was afferted by Mr. Law 



that 



more the branches of 



any t 

 fruit 

 M, th 



ried 



horizontally, the more apt that tree is to bear 



and that the more upright or perpendicular th 



branches are 



more difpofed 



afcribes to the bendhig do 



that tree to increafe in wood 

 of the branches imped 



hich h 



th 



of the fap. Art of Gard. ^^ 



Mr. Hitt in his Treatife on F 



Ti X™; .b. ir . .>.■.«--'. ■" ' '*'",!! tri" 



the horizon or 



beneath it, it lofes its vigour, 



a 



ir=, laTw*. „c..».,,a. h. ™,« of -.s . 



of tying thofe of elpaliers, in an, n 



branches of wall 



zontal dire£tip;> ( 



2es, and 

 iliU low 



this conftrained fituation th 



3E 



muft 



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