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Sect. XV. 3. 3 



OF 



FRUITS. 



415 



It a crreater (hare of nutriment may be derived to them, Inftead of 

 )wdincy the frame with new branches, whofe fruit-buds would be 

 ) late to ripen in our (hort fummers. 

 3. Thm all thofe fruits^ which are too numerous', pluck off ap 



peaches^ goojeh 



d cut out many grapes Jrom each hunch with 



JciJJ' 



By the inofcu4ation of the velTels of vegetables mentioned 



Se6l. I. q, when any parts of a tree are deftroyed, thofe in th 



become more vigorous. 



fruit 

 more 



On this account when part of the 

 ken away as early as may be, the remaining part acquires 

 •iment. Add to this, that, where fruit is crowded, fome of 



air, and in confequence does 



becomes precluded from the fun and 



perfedly ripe 



d 



ble to become mouldy ; for mucor 



much 



ble produ6lion, which like other fungi does not require either 

 ht or air, as appears from the growth of fome fungufTes in 

 dark ceUars, and of common mufhrooms beneath beds of ftraw, as 

 mentioned in Se£t. Xlll. i. 4. 



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Fr event the produBlon of new leaf -buds. 



In fome pear trees the whole of the bloffoms become ft 

 off without any apparent injury from cold, and this 



fall ( 

 fucceffi 



for 



, and 

 many 



The fam 



fometimes to chefnut trees, aef- 



pavia, after the flower the fruaification entirely falls off; fo 



of thefe might be male flow 



as 



Mill 



bf( 



b 



the whol 



could not be fuch. The fame happens very frequently to the fig- 

 trees of this chmate, fometimes the whole crop falls off, when they 



about the fize of filberts ; that is, while they 



flill in flower 



which though concealed within the fig, muft precede the fwellin 

 of the feeds, whether thefe be impregnated or not. 



& 



A correfpondent fa6l occurred to m 

 young trees of the Ifchia fig with fi 



few 



y 



them 



pots 



I had fi> 

 a flove 



On removing them into larger boxes the figs fell off, which I afcrib 

 ed to the increafed vj-our of the plants ; as they protruded very vigor 



(hoots occafioned by th 



of new foil 



d th 



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roots. 



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