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Sect. XV. 3. 4. 



roots. Perhaps thefe plants might rather be faid to have been 



in 



fl 



ower 



than 



in 



fl 



d perhaps thefe flowers were all m 



accompanied only with imperfed femal 



? 



Whence I conclude, that about the feafon when the corals of thefe 

 flowers with their flamens and ftigmas die, the trees generate and 

 nourifh too many new leaf-buds, owing to the facility with which 

 they can produce the new caudexes of thefe young buds down the 

 bark ; and that by the whole of the vegetable fap-juice being derived 

 to the new buds for their prefent growth, or to form refervoirs for 

 their future growth, the pericarp and feeds, whether impregnated 

 or not, are deprived of their due nutriment and fall off. See Seft. 



XVI 



4 



Hence I propofe to tie waxed thread or fine wire round the twio- 

 f pear-trees, which have ufually mifcarried, as foon as they are ii 



flower, fo as to comprefj 



but 



wound 



fo as to flrangulate them j or to 



he bark by a circular or femicircular incifion, which mio-ht 

 61 their facility of procreating new leaf- buds ; which I fuf- 



ped would be more effefl 



off, than pinching off the new leaf-buds, as they appear 



recommended by Dr. Bradley in the management of fig-trees, and 



preventing the flov^ers from falli 



: which 



is 



done to vines in hot-houfes ; but which I found to be inefFedual on 

 many fig-branches both in the natural ground and in pots, and afcrib- 

 ed its failure to the continuance of the efforts of the fig-tree to pro- 



1; whereas in vines, I fuppofe, the grapes would 



d 



leaf-bud 



ipen, wheth 



th 



No. 3. 2. of this Sed 



new leaf-buds remain or are deftroyed 



See 



Pontedera obferved, that in the iflands of the Archipelago fome fi 



bear in the fp 



any male flowers, and few femal 



ones 



the former of which fall off; and that they bear a fecond crop chiefly 

 of female flowers in the autumn, which ripen in the enfuing fpring. 

 Anthologia. Can this occur in the fig-trees of this countrv? 



Other figs are faid not to ripen but to fall ofif before their maturity, 



unlefs 



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