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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XIX. 3. 3 



ey lofe one third of 



fize, and confequently the diameters of 



their fecretory 



d of their ahforbent veiTels muft be m 



h d 



miniflied 



New 



kind 



s 



f 



the fit 



product 



of wh 



parts of the petals of flowers might be caufed, I fufpea:, by com 



preffing fome parts 



f them befor 



flower opens, by ty 



fi 



threads round the calyx, which inclofe 



em 



as 



y darker 



CO 



loured cats and dogs have all thofe parts lighter or quite white, which 

 have been compreffed together, as they lay in their fet 



ftate in th 



uterus 



(lance of which exifts in a black male cat, which 



/ 



pon the hearth 



d an inflance of a black 



bitcLis d 



fcribed in Zoonomia, Vol. II. Clafs I 



1 1. 



This may be worth 



the attention of florifts and flowcrfellers ; and it is probable, that t 

 white ftreaks in dark flowers may have been thus produced by th 



& 



D 



r compreffion in the calyx, before the flower opens. 

 The caufes of duplicature in perennial flowers with 



branch 



o 



•roots, 



r 



thus. 



caltha, hepatica, anemone 



th 



d 



filene. wallfl 



carnation, 



hfly, are probably fuch as 

 thofe vegetables, and may 



afford a general luxuriancy of growth 



be certainly propagated by offsets from thofe roots, or by lay 



heir branches in th 



o 



nd, fo as to exadly refemble their parents 



Many of thefe double flowers may alfo be procured by colleifting th 

 feeds from fuch finde flowers of the fame fpecies, as polfefs a fupei 



iiumerary petal 

 with double or 



vhich, if fowed on fertile ground 



plied fl 



, will prefent 

 the anemone and july-flov 



mentioned in No. I. i . of this Sedion 



The effed of breaking the fingle ones Into varieties of 



-which, in 



mones 



d poppies as well 



P 



com 



monly beautiful, is probably owing to th 



d moifl: 



h 



lefs fertility of the fo 

 they have happened 



or lefs fupply of heat ai 



refide, and that more effedually if they were removed from 



favourable fituations. 



moi 



The 



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