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Sect. XVI. 2. 5 



OF 



SEEDS 



445 



Chinefe empire, and the cultivators lop ofF the tops to i*"creafe th 



mber of pod 



and to haften their produfl 



and in the Weft 



Indies the flowers of the rofe 



believed to be accelerated and 



fed by topping the branches. EmbafTy to China by fir G. St 



Vol.111, p. 202. 8vo. ed 



W^hen the ftems and foliage of wheat are thus too vigorous, 



it 



may be advanta 



to eat 



it down by flieep as above mentioned 



which may not only deftroy the too vigorous viviparous central flems, 

 but alfo produce a greater number of lateral ones; which may fooner 



ones, fo as to produce more gram with lets 



k 



parous 



flraw 



5- 

 be done 



flems and 



It is alfo probabl 



g them as mentioned abo 



f 



\ 



mornins before the dew is ofF, might fo far bruife the 



o 



as to 



ftop their too great propenfity to nourilh thi 

 v.v.plrTus buds', and in confequence to favour the growth of theovi 

 parous buds on their fummits ; which might forward the harveft fea 

 fon, as well as increafe the produa of grain in proportion to the quan 



From rollino; wheat in fpring on fields where the fu 



tity of flraw 



face remains uneven or cloddy 



other advantage may be derived 



by breaking th 



clods or eminences, and thus earthing up many of 



the ftems above the fecond joint,. and thus inducing a new fet of root- 

 fcions to put forth, or tiller. See Se<5l. XII. 3. 



6. The garden plants, which are too vigorous, in fituations where 

 there is a command of water, as in the gardens of warm climates, 

 fhould have lefs water derived to them, till the blofiToms appear ; be- 

 caufe a greater quantity of moifture facilitates the produdion of vivi- 

 parous b^'uds fo much as to retard that of oviparous ones, and thus 

 diminiOies the quantity as well as retards the ripening of the crop. 

 But in thefe fituations, as foon as the bloffoms appear, a greater fup- 

 ply of water (hould be allowed, which will contribute to nourilh and 



them, as mentioned abov 



pra£l:ifed in fome 



of the eaft, where they do not flood their rice-grounds, till they 



flower 



