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^^ble p; 



^irc^. 



at «t 



■^e lait 



ati 



ited 



erto 



^xpcri. 



} ail 



ever. 



'^ ev 

 .1; 



'^^gree[^ 



Uio. 



^^e fads fo 



n thofc arts 



' produdlon 

 proper age, 

 he horizon, 

 or t)uiga 

 or cutting 

 ^ or cutting 



• • 



: viviparoos 



llmation by 

 itlUary, 



&c. 



Ids in l'""' 

 as "■^"* 



nar^i 



of th^ F 



above 



I 



jneo- 



^'ing ^' 



fertiW 



Sect. XIX. 



3-I' 



OF FLOWERS.' 



541 



fertility of the foil, and the abund 

 combination. 



Other clrcumftanc 



w 



may alfo contribute 



of moifture and of warmth 



hich may add to their luxuriant growth 



to th 



dupl 



fuch 



by breaking off 



the flower as foon as it begins to fade ; and thus, by preventing th 



o;etable 



juices 



from being expended 



the o;rowth of 



the feeds, more of it 

 bulb 



may be derived to the principal fucceeding 



Thus it is averted, that the preventing fome annualplants fr 

 flowering lengthens their lives, which it may effed by occafion 

 them to produce new root-fcions, and thus to become perennial 



aetables. The very ingenious Mr. Bogle, in the papers of the Bath 



Society, bel 



that wh 



d barley, may be made peren 



if they are eaten down by cattle or (heep, 01 cut by the fcyth 



flckle, fo as to prevent them from prod 



As tulip-bulbs raifed from feed produce a larger bulb the fucceed- 

 iar, and again a larger with a different leaf on the third year 



ing year, ; 

 and fo on 

 till they fl 



the fifth or fixth 



bulbs thus annually imp 



o 



/ 



mp 



d even after they flower they are believed to 

 for fome years, till the colour of the petals be- 



come ftriped : I fufpeft that th 



f 



P 



a 



dupl 



f the petals of thefe flowers confifts in breaking off the flower- 

 flem on the fifth, fixth, and feventh years, from the fowing of the 

 feed • that is, for a year, or two, or three, after the flower-flem 



firft appears, as noted in Sea. VIII. i. 3 



And that the tendency 



duplicature will continue in the fucceeding bulbs by the acquired 

 habit, as in 



the hereditary dlfeafes of anima 



Arid fecondlvj thefe fl 



become more luxuriant by raif- 



them out of the ground, as foon as the leaves wither, which 

 parents of the new bulbs ; and then by taking away the fmalle 



r or 



bulbs from the principal one, which might otherwife 



I » 



commode its growth by th 



and 



feq 



compref" 



fior 



