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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XV. 2. 5. 



plied with advantage in the management of other fr 



ftance of great impo 



d can only be determined 



periment. But as the firfl foliage of euonymus is generally deftroyed 

 by infedts in this country, and yet a fecond growth of foliage is pro- 



duced 



d 



I witnefTed laft year, that the whole firfl leaves of 



pple-tree were deftroyed, as 



believed, by lightning, and wh 



yet put forth an entire new fet of leaves in a few weeks ; is there no 

 reafon to conclude, that if the leaf-buds were picked out early in thi 

 feafon from a flrong flioot of peach or apricot, either new leaf-bud 



might be produced 



that fummer 



flower-bud 



] 



the fucceed 

 and that ou 



th 



ine, as happens to the vine-fhoots above defcribed ; at 

 trees might be thus rendered more certainly prolific. And laftly, 

 t not the clipping out with fine fcifiars the extremities of young 

 flioots, which would otherwife be barren ones, convert fome of 



; into bunches by thus fupplying them with additional 

 by preventing its expenditure in the elongation of the 



dril 



parous branch 



This experiment mig 



ht be th 



moi 



eadily 



tried, as fome affert, that the barren buds may be diftinguiflied from 

 the prolific ones by their form before they expand, 



6. Arts of producing flower- buds. 



The following quotation, partly from the Botanic Garden, Vol. I. 

 Canto 4. 1. 465, may amiife the reader, and conclude the fecond part 

 of this Se6lion.. 



If prouder branches with exuberance rude 

 Point their green germs, their barren (hoots protrude 

 Lop with fl-jarp fteel the central growth, or bind 

 A wiry ringlet round the fwelling rind ; 

 Bifed with chifel fharp the root below. 

 Or bend to earth the inhofpitable bough. 

 So, while oppofed, no embryon leaf- bud ihoots 

 Down the reluftant bark its fibre-roots 1 



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