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Sect. XV. 2.4 



OF 



FRUITS 



403 



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forth leaves, and the apples remained 

 branches bore fo plentifully, 





nd ripened 



and both the 



th 



one 



broke with its load 



d 



was neceflary to prop the other. 

 The theory of the fuccefs of thefe 



that 



rious experiments confirms 



delivered above concerning the fears made by the jundion of 



ino-raftcd fcions with the (locks; and it is probable, that three or 



four circular incifions through the bark on viviparous pear or apple 



fpiral incifion, as defcribed in Seft. IX. 2. 8. might anfwer 

 • --.u^.,.. j^«-.-oA;»rr anri rpnlacin? the bark; as fears or 



the purpofe without detrading and repla 

 callous circles would be thus produced, which might render it more 

 difficult for the new caudexes of the embryon leaf-buds to be gene- 

 rated, or their parts united, and confequently increafe the number of 



flower-buds. r u 



Mr. Fitzgerald further obferves, that he changed cylinders of th 



bark with equal fuccefs of nedarine and peach trees; 

 branches thus operated upon were retarded in their general growth 

 which coincides with the idea of repeatedly grafting one fc" 

 another on the apple-trees defigned for dwarfs to be fet 



d th 



th 



in gard 



pots 



defcribed in No 



of this Se£l 



4. T^e t ran/planting a ^viviparous fruit-tfee, or dejiroylngfome of its 



confining its roots in a garden pot^ or 



before Midft 



the 



a floor of bricks beneath the foil, will induce it to become oviparous. 

 Mr. Kni<^ht, in his treatife on the Culture of the Apple and Pear 



P- 83 



h 



th 



following pafla 



*' In the garden culture of th 



pple, where th 



tained as dwarfs or efpal 



th 



mo 



fly growing kinds are often rendered unprodudive by the ex- 

 ceffive, tho'ugh neceffary, ufe of the pruning knife. I have alwayi 

 fucceeded in making trees of this kind fruitful by digging them up 



and replacing them wi 



th fome frefh mould in the fame fit 



The too great luxuriance of growth is checked, and a dlfpofition 

 bear is in confequence brought on." The fame obfervation was mad 



to 



by Mr. Lawrence 



took up trees 



3Fi 



hich w 



too 



vis;orous 



th 



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