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PR O DUCTIO N 



Sect. XVI, 2. 4 



we can. the time of bloflbm 



) 



D 



d to protra(fl the time of 



for 



is th 



ripening." Horfe-hoeing Hufbandiy, Ch. XI. p. 147 ; 



farinaceous refervoir of nutriment laid up in the cotyledon of the new 



feed for the future growth of the corculum or new embryon, for 



hich we cultivate the pi 



d this refe 



formed between 



the bloflbming and ripening of the grain, either before or after the 



impregnation of the pericarp, or feed-veflel 



d th 



^ 



ders th 



& 



plump and heavy. Mr. T 



nother part of his work 



commend 



add 



horfe-hoeing immediately after the bloffora 



Ch. IX. 



is over, to fupply more nutriment to the ripening grain. 



p. 120. Mr.XuU efteems the eating down of wheat by fheep to be 



^-^ 



rally a very injurious prad 



this dim 



by rendej 



£3 



the 



ght and the ftraw weak ; by retarding the time of bioffomin 



well as the growth of the ftem 

 4. In the moift fprings of thi 



£) 



mate many annual or biennial 



liable to fhoot out too many or too ftron 



g viviparous 



branches, which can not generate flower-buds foon enough to ripen 



their feeds in our cold and fhort fummers 



This always happen 



mbers and melons, which were brought from warmer 



o 



and to the peas and beans of our gardens, and fometimes to corn- 



too 



ft ron g 



flems 



plants, which are liable in wet feafons to produce 

 and foliage, which have not time to generate the flower-bud at their 

 fummit foon enough to perfect and to ripen the feed. Melons and 

 cucumbers have been mentioned in Se<5l. XV. 2, 5. and in refpe(5l to 

 arden beans their viviparous tops fhould be pinched off, which if not 



£> 



old may be eaten as an agreeable vegetable, wh 



ni well boiled 

 and thus more nutriment is derived to the oviparous buds beneath 



hich renders them 



a 



and perhaps more numerous. To p 



vent field peas from running into flraw in moift foils lefs manui 



fhould be ufed 



d field beans may have their top 



ofF by 



fcythe fixed into a ftraight fhaft. 



Annual cotton plants are much cultivated in fome colder parts of 



the 



