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SEEDS 



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tbe (hort fummers of this climate ; and if the roots can be dw d.d. 



as in wheat, or new felons can be produced by the.r be.ng tranfplant- 

 ed deeper, as alfo occurs in wheat, the quanfty of^the feed may alfo 

 be wonderfully increafed by tranfplanting. See Sea. Xll. 6. 



. Another mode of forwarding the produdion of feeds, and of 

 fooner ripening them, confifts in pruning off the viv.parous tops or 

 lateral fhoots, which will bear no feeds at all, or only fmall or nn- 

 perfea ones, in our northern fummers. For this purpofe the cuttu.g 



away the tops of beans and of peas, and the lateral branches of arti- 

 chokes, after the fruit-buds are formed, both forwards and enla;-" 

 the flowers and feeds, which remain, as more nounfhment is derived 



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them 



4. As a fuperfluous fupply of water is more friendly to th, produc- 

 tion of leaf-buds than to the generation of flower-buds, to derive left 

 water than ufual to the roots, forwards the produaion of feeds, a faft 

 well known in the gardens of warmer climates, which are perpetually 



atered from refervoirs or wheel 



But when the bloflbms 



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appear, an addition of water muft forward their growth l^ fupply.ng 

 nouriftment, which ftiould again be leflened when the fruit has ac- 

 quired its full fize, both to expedite its ripening, and to increafe its 

 flavour • as the faccharine matter and effential oil will be lefs diluted 



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with water 



In the dry fummer of 1799 I had the opportunity of flooding fomc 

 of beans in wy garden, which by being done too frequently " 



ploufly, occafioned them to grow 



than ufuaL and in confequence to bring to perfedion few feed 



to a much greater heightr' 



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feme of them 



As I fuppofe the new (hoots of fig-trees in the 

 Wuvinrof' fummer occafions the firft produftion of young figs to 

 fall off fmm the want of that nourifhment, which is now expended 



the growth of new leaf-bud 



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facility of producing leaf-buds feems evidently to prevent th 



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