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Sect. XV. 2. 4. 



OF 



FRUIT S. 



405 



flowers, and iii greater number ; and it is hence better to pluck them 



than to dig them up, for the purpofe of repl 



them ; as by 



th 



means m 



f the root-fibres are torn off 



d the 



be 



come almoft totally oviparous. 



It is well known, that the veflels of animal bodies are lefs liable to 



bleed, when they are torn afunder, th 

 fharp inftrument > as 



they 



cut with a 



: J. as their diameters are contra(5ted, or their interna 

 furfaces brought into contadl with each other, in the a6t of extend 



hem, till they break. Thus if the navel-ftrings of new bo 



» ■ 



mals 



ftead of 



they 



abl 



bleed to death 



and 



there is a remarkabl 



\^ 



fe of a miller's fervant, who had his arm and 



fhoulder bone, or fcapula, torn off in a windmill without much lofs 

 of blood. This is mentioned to fliew, that it may alfo be better to tear' 

 tip roots, which are tranfplanted for this purpofe, than to dig them 



up; 



as they may thence efFufe lefs vegetable blood, 



and 



in 



confe 



quence be lefs weakened by the operation. 



'In tranfplanting ftrawberries many of the roots being torn off, fewer 

 leaf-buds, and confequent wires, are produced from the difficulty, 

 which their embryon caudexes find in producing new radicles over 

 the old ones to fupply nutriment to the wires, till they bend down 



- 



and protrude roots into the ground at their other extremities, whence 

 a greater number of flower-buds are generated ; on this account the 

 roots of ftrawberries fhould generally be tranfplanted, or new ones 

 from the wires (hould be cultivated, every third or fourth year, to pre^ 

 vent the too luxuriant growth of their wires ; or a fimilar difficulty 

 of producing wires or leaf-buds may be effe£led by crowding the 

 roots pf ftrawberries together, as fome gardeners recommend ; but 

 I fuppofe by thefe means the fruit may become fmaller from fcarcity 

 of nutriment, though more numerous. 



A floor of bricks, or of ftone, extended about two feet deep be- 

 neath the roots of wall trees, has been pradtifed in fome gardens from 



^n idea, that the roots (hot thcmfelves too deep into fome unwhole- 



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