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Sect. XIX. 2. 2. 



OF FLOWERS. 



S39 



they have been cultivated, yet that, when tranfplanted into lefs fer- 

 tile foils, or ingrafted on lefs luxurianc trees, they ftill retain their 

 tendency to duplicature; which can only be afcribed to the continu- 

 ance of an acquired habit, or to the fucceflion of hereditary difeafes,- 

 fo frequently obferved in the animal fyftem. 



This duplicature of flowers from buds is generally propagated by 

 ingrafting the fcions of fuch, as bear multiplied petals, on fimilar 

 plants, which bear fingle flowers ; and may be of fervice not only for 

 beauty, but for the purpofe of increafe in thofe plants, the petals of 

 whofe flowers are confumed for any purpofe, as 



the leaves of rofe 



A gentleman 



at Nottingham annually diflils a profitable quantity 



of eflential oil of rofes, by collefting all of them he can purchafe ir 

 the neighbourhood during the feafon ; and this by the ufual proccfs 



And a furgeon at Stafford 



which is not difficult though tcdiou 



has introduced an agreeable and profitable kind of 



planting half an acre of ground with red rofes, and converting th 



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by 



flowers into conferve with fug 

 London market 



by fimply drying them for th 



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It is probable, that 



numerous varietie? of colour in the fingle 

 flowers of fhrubs, as well as thofe of annual plants, might be ob- 

 tained by (baking the anther- dufl: of one variety over the ftigma of 

 another, where any difference of colour already exifts in the fame 



And perhaps fome changes of colour of the flowers might 

 be produced by inoculating the buds of a flirub, whofe flowers are of 



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the branches of another variety of the fame 



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the varieg-ation of the foliage of pi 



bee 



produced 



this manner, according to th 



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faid to hav 

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Bradley and Mr. Laurence, who budded a fpotted paffion-flower and 

 a ftriped jafmine on thofe, which were not variegated, and produced 

 a fimilar variecration of them, as related in Se6l. V. i. 



This has bee 



afcribed to the abforption of fome infe6Vious matter from 

 lated bud, which propagated a fimilar difeafe to the whole 



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