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(ECONOMY 
§. 6 . 
The Vegetable Kingdom, 
Propagation. 
Anatomy abundantly proves 5 that all plants 
are organic , and living bodies ; and that all or- 
ganic bodies are propagated from an egg has 
been fufficiently demonftrated by the induftry 
of the moderns. We therefore the rather, ac- 
cording to the opinion of the fkilfull, rejedfc 
the sequivocal generation of plants ; and the 
more fo, as it is certain that every living thing 
is produced from an egg. Now the feeds 
of vegetables are called eggs ; thele are diffe- 
rent in every different plant , that the means 
being the fame, each may multiply its fpecies s 
and produce an offspring like its parent. We 
do not deny, that very many plants pufh forth 
from their roots freih offsets for two or more 
years. Nay not a few plants may be propa-; 
gated by branches, buds, fuckers and leaves 
fixed in the ground, as likewife many trees. 
Hence their fcems being divided into branches, 
may be looked on as roots above ground , for 
in the fame way the roots creep under ground ; 
and 
