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ledge of — at kast mthout giving sufficient explana- 

 tion of, any cause rendering the tree of more puny 

 growth in consequence of being transplanted. In 

 the case of simple herbaceous vegetables, we find, 

 on the contrary, that transplanting increases the 

 size, protracts the period of full development, and 

 retards the decay, the individual suffering no lasting 

 injury from root fracture, or that injmy being more 

 than compensated by change to a new and more re- 

 cently wTought soil ; or even the root fracture, in- 

 stead of being of prejudice to the growth, by tlirow- 

 ing the energy of the plant in this direction to repair 

 the injmy, not only may do so, but delaying the su- 

 perior process towards reproduction may also give a 



* Transplanting having an opposite influence on the young of 

 herbaceous and woody vegetables, in the former when not al- 

 ready rising into stem, retarding, and the latter accelerating or 

 furthering development of the reproductory parts, is a good les- 

 son to reasoners from analogy. The root-fractured herbaceous 

 plants repauing the injury almost immediately, and before the 

 rudiments of the reproductory parts have time for expansion, the 

 greater quantity of moist nourishment afforded by the unsought 

 newly stiiTed soil, produces a flush of radical leaves, which re- 

 act to further the extension of the roots. The new rootlets have 

 again more connexion to promote the growth of the radical leaves, 

 and to induce offsets — tillertng — from the sides of the bulb, than 

 to nouiish or mature the core part, from whence the stem arises 

 — a certain comparative extension and matmity of the core being 

 necessary to the rising of the stem. Thence seeding can be retarded, 

 and life in annuals be continued, ad libiium. On the contrary, in 



