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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XV. 2. 5. 



higher animation, if it may be fo called 



eeneratioii 



f leaf-bud 



iD 



The fame mode of growth occurs in the you 



of oaks, and which is thus curioufly accounted f( 



a 



(h 



T 



lateral branches of 



fiower-b 



r 



many mature trees, though they be: 

 fides, are generally terminated with a leaf-bud, 

 as above explained ; but it happens in fome of them, and particularly 

 to vines, that after two or three flower-buds are produced on a lateral 

 branch, that it (hall proceed to grow in length, and to produce leaf- 

 buds at every joint above the flower-buds, as well as at the fummit ; 

 which may be thus perhaps fatisfadorily explained. After the third, 

 and fourth, and fifth joints of a new lateral {hoot have generated 

 flowers, which require few or no more caudexes ; room enough is left 

 on the bark of the flioot for thofe above them to acquire the numer- 

 ous new miniature caudexes of embryon leaf-buds, and where the new 

 caudexes of embryon buds can eafily be produced along the bark, and 

 fufficient nutriment is fupplied ; all vegetables are more liable to pro- 

 pagate themfelves by buds than by feeds. 



Hence in the management of 



well as of MELONS 



ufeful at two or three joints above the laft bunch of fruit to pinch 

 off the viviparous end of the new branch, not fo much to accommo- 

 date the length of it to the houfe, as to fupply the growing fruit with 

 more nourifhment from the inofculations of the veffels of the cau- 

 dexes of thefe viviparous buds, which are now cut off, with thofe of 

 the oviparous ones, which remain. 



A curiQus vegetable faa, which appears in the culture of vines in 

 hot-houfes here prefents itfelf to our notice. When a vigorous flioot 

 advances without producing fruit-buds at the third or fourth joint, it 

 is frequently permitted to grow in length to above twenty feet; but 



ry joint the new or fecondary bud is pinched off, either foon 



fter its appea 



th 



or after it has fhot out one or two joints 



management of permitting the central fummit of the (hoot 



By 



grow till Auguft or September, the eyes, whofe buds have been 



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pinched 



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