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PRODUCTION OF 



Sect. XVIII. 2. r. 



fimilar colour and aftringent tafte to our domeftic wines, 



as th 



e 



fkin of the fame g 



rape ^ 



gives to the foreign wines made from it 



lince the leaves of this vine always become quite red in autumn, be 



fore they fall, probably by the concentration of th 

 their water evaporates unfuppiied; as all blue V( 



getable 



acidity 



J 



as 



be 



come green by an admixture of alkali, and red by that of an acid. 

 6. Another ufe for which leaves are colleded by fome gardeners 



they fall in autumn from any kinds of 



for the produdlio 



of heat by fermentation in hot-houfes, or melon -frames 



ftead of 



k-bark 



ft 



bitter particles have been 



h 



raded by th 



will th 



and it is probable, that many leaves might be feleded, as they 

 IS undergo fermentation, which might afford a fpirituous 

 drink like fmall beer without any difagreeable flavour, or unwhole- 

 fome material; which now ferveonlv for manure when crathered 



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ps, or by their flow decay on arable land 



t) 



grafs lands, they fall upon 



mber th 



n. OfWhodh 



I. 



The leaf-buds of trees producing a- viviparous offspring acq 



dexes, extending from the bi 



B 



r 



of thefe 

 the flower-buds 



to 



d 



dth 



acq 



their oviparous progeny does not adh 

 bud, but falls down when mature, ar 



dexes forms the new bark over the old o] 



dexes down the bark, 



; fide of the parer 



j^ 



new 



as 



F^ 



th 



Now as the bark of 



IS 



bud 



d as it 



e, and flrikes root into the foil, 

 thus produced along with the leaf- 

 ually becomes alburnum or fap-wood ; and that 

 fap-wood gradually lofes all vegetable life, and becomes heart- wood, 

 it follows, that the art of forwarding the growth of the wood of 

 trees muft confifl in producing and nourifliing the leaf-buds. . 



For this purpofe the roots of trees fhould be fupplied with- rather 

 more water, than they generally poffefs in their moft natural ftate, or 



"e; as moid are fa- 



1 



cilitatea. 



branches, fliould be fprinkled by 



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