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Sect. XV. 2. 5. 



//6(? viviparous branches i^ 



obferved by Mr.Whltmai, who bound not only the viviparous fh 



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'nduces them to become ovip 



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with ftronor wire, but alfo lonne of ...^ ^ 



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fed the product of his fr 



Bradley 



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dening, Vol. II. p. 155. And M.BufFon produced the fame efFcd by 



a tight cord round the branches, which previoufly produced 

 buds inftead of flower-buds. Aft. Paris, ann. 1738 



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M.BufFon concludes from the above experiments, that an ingraft 



d branch bears fruit more copioufl 



nd more certainly, from 



iTels being compreffed by the callus around the ingrafted junft 

 hich may^'have this effea, and at the fame time contribute by p 



o- the luxuriant growth 



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f its leaf (hoots to render the tree of 

 more dwarfiOi ftature. I am informed that many dwarf apple-trees,- 

 which are now planted in garden pots both in France and England, 

 bear much fruit, and are elegantly placed .in the centre of a defert at 

 luxurious tables ; and that the principal art of producing them 



fifts in ingrafting them three or four times, fcion on fcion 



foth 



the ftem is comprcfled by the callus of three or four ingraftments be- 

 fore the branches are permitted to divaricate;, and the trees are thus 



rendered beautiful dwarfs. 



The effea of thus comprefTing the bark by a wire, or a cord, or by 

 the callus round the jundures of the ingrafted fcions, is undoubtedly 

 accomplifhed by the increafed difficulty oppofed to the produaion of 

 thecaudexes for each new embiryon leaf-bud, as above explained, and 

 the confequent generation of flower-buds inflead of them. 



3. Thirdly, ^he wounding, or breaking a viviparous branchy or cut- 

 ting away a ring of the bark, as of pear-trees, or afemi-cy Under of the 



u it 'trees, induces them to become oviparous. 



hark oj other jruit'trees^ 



Where young trees d 

 vifes to cut the mofl vigorous (hoots two parts in three through 



Mr. Lawrence ad 



notch, that the wound may not heal too foon 



which h 



adds will both render them fruitful, make th 



more 



readily 



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