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XLV. On the Connection between the Leaves and Fruit of 

 Vegetables, with other physiological Observations. By 

 Anthony Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S.fyc. 



Read January 2, 1816. 



In the art of gardening, it must be allowed that the greatest 

 value will always belong to special facts, noted down by 

 experienced, acute, and judicious men. Still, however, the 

 mind, which is constantly occupied upon particular details, 

 may not be equally awake to those affinities and connections 

 in nature, from whence useful general rules may be deduced ; 

 for it is by a comprehensive classification of leading facts, 

 that abridgments of knowledge are made, and these must 

 form the boundary to unprofitably minute particulars. This 

 gathering together of similar evidence, and the assortment 

 of it into systematic order, are more within the province of 

 the inspector, than that of the experimenter. Under those 

 impressions, the following observations are submitted to the 

 Horticultural Society, trusting, that scientific or practical 

 men may employ the accruing suggestions, so as to enlarge 

 the scope of this branch of useful knowledge. Without pre- 

 suming on the general series of facts which I have to mention, 

 being free from apparent exceptions, I offer them as an ex- 

 tensive range of coincidences, from whence beneficial infer- 

 ences may be drawn. There is an obvious connection 



