'3. 



any 



•ked 



e 



nu 



pofe 

 the 



« 



r 



5 



or 



rsia 

 then 



hed; 



buds 

 ■med 



of a 



:ieaf- 

 ' leaf- 

 t the 

 bleto 



; kept 



alter- 



oc- 



root, 

 ther- 



e 







j.jncrU' 







d vv 



ifO 



dues 



the ill' 



a 



bove 



r 



(late; 



/ 



/ 



Sect, XV. 2.3 



OF 



FRUITS 



401 



ft 



d 



nfequently the parts beneath will poffefs more 



f 



r 



d alfo becaufe thefe new 



buds are generated from a lower part of 



the caudex, and will thence be a few years before they will acqi 

 that maturity, or puberty, which is neceffary for the generation 



of 



flower-bud 



or 



th 



product 



of a 



fexual 



or 



femi 



progeny 



whence by ftrangulating or decorticating the alternate branches of 

 pear-tree they will bear for fix or eight years ; and the other alternat 

 ones will become in the fame time ftrong and vigorous, ready to un 

 dergo a fimilar operation, when the former ceafe to be of further ufe 

 but the fruit will become fmaller in fize, though in greater number 

 and ripen earlier in the feafon. 



In the fame manner new root-fcic 

 flrane^ulatinsf a branch of a root near 



faid to be produced by 



the furface with a tieht ft 



by flitting a root near the trunk, Evelyn's Sylva; as in thefe cafes 



the afcent of the fap-j 



impeded, and the part below becom 



parous, or produces new leaf-buds for th 



reafons mentioned 



the laft paragraph ; as is frequently feen where the end of a branch 

 is lopped, or beneath the fear of the jundion of an ingrafted, fcion. 

 On the fame account it is not uncommon to ingraft with fuccefs on 



: as the ro- 



fth 



roots taken out of the ground, and afterwards replanted ; as 

 binia on the root of acacia, and any other apples on the root 

 fuckers of bur-apple, or codling, mentioned in Sed. IX. 3. 5, 



For the fame reafon the roots of fome plants, which are otherwife 

 not eafily propagated, wiU ftioot up buds ; if a part of them next the 

 ftem of the plant be half cut through, or raifed out of the ground. 



d cxpofed to th 



pyramidal campanula, and geranium 



batum. And for the fame reafon th 



branch 



f 



mero 



fhrubs, as well as of herbaceous plants, will put forth roots, when 

 they are bent down into the ground, if they are previoufly wounded 

 to prevent the free fupply of the vegetable nutriment in its ufual 

 courfe, as in laying carnations, dianthus. 



* 



. A method of converting the viviparous branches of pear and apple 



3 



F 



trees 



I 



