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Sect. XV. 2. 5. 



OF 



FRUITS. 



40; 



except at the extremity, which is terminated with a viviparous hud; 

 while the central branches continue long to gen'erate only a vivipar- 



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progeny, as in vines and 



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The firft of thefe 



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the unprohfi 



bottom of large branches, may be 

 forts of pullulation from the w 

 lat 



ftence of the buds at th( 



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1 part to their feebler ef 



of fufficient funfh 



nd 



, „..d alfo in part, like the fpurs, and other lateral branches, to 



the difficulty they encounter in producing the embryon caudexes of 

 new leaf-buds along the trunk ; which is already occupied by thofe 

 of the more vigorous vegetation of the central branches, which pof- 



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fefs a oreater fhare of funfhine and 



But'the principal caufe, which rendersthe fpurs and lateral branch 



ovipai 



fults from the refinance the embryon caud 



of leaf- 



buds experience by the curvature of the lateral branch, where it joins 

 the trunk, and the confequent coardation of Its veflTels, added to the 

 difficulty every lateral bud has to encounter from its own 



from the parent 



which laft account the central 



bud at the extremity of an oviparous branch 



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lly viviparous 



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becaufe it has not any 



All this correfponds with 



the faa above defcribed, that when the viviparous arms of wall 

 are bent down to the horizon, they become oviparous. See No 

 of this Section. 



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What then happens in all thefe fituations when th® central parts 



way or fhortened 



Firft the dwarf buds at the bottom of 



thefe large viviparous branches, which are in part cut away, will find 

 more room to pu(h down the embryon caud 



and will produce a vivipa 



progeny ; and thofe 



f new leaf-bud 



bottom of 



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oviparous branches, which are fliortened by cutting ofF their vivipar- 

 ous extremities, will alfo now pullulate, and produce flower-buds for 

 the. fucceeding year, owing to the derivation of fome of that nourilh- 

 ment to them, which would otherwife have been expended on the 

 fummit-bud,^ Secondly, the fpurs will generate an oviparous pro- 

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