.VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
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While the Plant flowers, thefe are filled with nourifhment, and they 
grow, and thrufi out farther from the Root: they become lengthened to 
an inch or more; and the lowed: Films being always left upon the Procefs, 
that whole pare has a fcaly furface. S.e Plate XII. Fig. a a a. 
When the Procefs has attained this length, it is in a date of growth 
for a new Plant. It may be broken off from the original Root, and put 
into the ground. The wound being only at the end of the body, is of no 
confequence ; the Bud which was the original of the whole remains un- 
hurt at the other end, and forms a Crown, Fig. 2. b\ from which a new 
Plant rifes. 
Gardiners take thefe Precedes, for p.irts of the Root ; but they djould 
didinguifh better. No Fibres grow from them while they adhere to the 
Root ; nor does their extremity dioot in length, as the ends of Roots do ; 
but keeps its original form ; while the fcales which cover it, give it a rag- 
ged appearance. 
When one of thefe Precedes, which we fee are only lengthened Buds, 
is broken off from the old Root, and planted in the ground, it takes a new 
condition. While it remained fixed to the body of the Root, it had its 
nourifhment thence, and therefore needed not to dioot out Fibres : but 
when feparated, and planted, the lengthened part by which it wa= joined 
to the Root, adumes the condi ion of the bodies of other Roots, and lends 
out Fibres to draw nouridiment%/or the fupport of the embryo Plant, 
which is now ready to dioot from its Crown. 
The bafe of the Bud, Fig, 2, c, where it originally rofe from the fur- 
face of the old Plant, fwells fird, and forms a head of a Root, juft fuch 
as that from whence it fprung ; the whole exterior part of the Bud then 
lengthens and enlarges ; and Fibres are fhot out from the lengthened part 
of the Procefs. Prefently the fcales of the Bud, feparated by its increafe 
in length, open, and there burd: from them Shoots ; but thefe are only 
Rudiments of Radical Leaves, d. The Crown itfelf remains unopened, 
and the embryo Plant for dowering does not yet grow. There requires 
the alddance of the Leaves for that effort. 
The fecond year this Crown opens, and the Flowerdalk rifes : and at 
the fame time new Buds burd: forth. upon the head of the Root near the 
Crown ; fuch as in the old Root gave.ori,gin to this; and thefe lengthen- 
ing into fo many Procedes, are ready af towards to be feparated from the 
Root, and grow. 
This is the propagation of the Anemone by increafe of Root: and 
three years are necelfary for the full jprocedure. The Bud which is form- 
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