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PR O DUCTIO N 



Sect. XV. 2.4. 



that is, which produced viviparous buds inftead of oviparous ones, 

 and replanted then:i to render them fruitful. Art of Gardening. Lend! 



I 



n 



fpi 



trees for 



they fhould 



y purpofe it may be obferved 



be replanted deep 



th 



foil, fince the moll: 



tive or filubrious parts of the earth are thofe within the reach of th 

 fun's warmth, of the defcending moifture, and of the oxygen of th 



mofph 



And as the root-fibres of trees, like thofe of feed 



/ 



ways grow towards the moifleft part of the foil, as the young fhoots 

 and leaves grow towards the pureft air and brighteft light ; it fol- 



that the root-fibres feldom rife higher in the ground tlian they 



themfelves even perfedly 



in the 



were originally fet, and feldom 

 horizontally ; fo that when a fr 



planted 



deep 



feldom grows with healthy vigour, either in refped 



leaf-buds or its flower-bud 



This curious effea: cannot be produced by generally debilitatino- 

 the tree from its want of due nourifhment ; becaufe it is faid to fuc- 

 ceed beft in very good foil, or by the addition of new garden mould, 

 as before direded ; but by rendering more difficult the produdion 

 of radicles from the caudexes of the embryon leaf-buds; which de- 

 fcend to the fineft ramifications of the old roots, and elongate them- 



■ils; a great num- 



felves beyond the extremities of their ultimate fib 



ber of which roots being torn off by tranfplantation, or compreffed 



garden pot, the produdion 

 mull: be impeded or prevented 



w leaf-bud 



be 



in 



feq 



progrefs of many of the new radi 

 ; and the 



formed 



merous caud 



of 



th 



whence an increafed tendency to generate flower-bud 



difficulty 



For the fame reafon if bean 



inches high, be 



vicia faba, which are but a few 



to 



fplanted ; they do not become fo 



flower and ripen their feeds fooner ; 

 generate new leaf-buds. The fame 



becaufe they 



all, but they 

 not fo eafily 



a 



brocoli, braffica 



the plant does 



frequently tranfpl 



grow fo talL but h 



o 



flowers, 



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