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in the season from that, which is to bear seed; or if they were confined in 
garden pots. 
It is also probable, that Jerusalem, or ground-artichokes (helianthus 
tuberoses), might be induced to ripen its seeds in this country, if the new 
roots from a few of the forwardest plants were taken away early in the 
season, or if they were confined in garden pots. And if this plant could 
be propagated by seed, it might make a useful product in agriculture, as 
horses are very fond of the leaves, and swine of the roots; both of which 
are produced in great quantity; and as the latter contain much sugar, they 
must be very nutritive; and in respect to their culinary use are remarkably 
grateful to most palates, as well as nutritive, when cut into slices, and baked 
in beef or mutton pies; but are said to be flatulent in the bowels of those 
whose digestion is not very powerful; a property which might be worthy 
attention, where the propensity to fermentation is required, as in making 
bread with potatoes, or in the distillery. 
It is also probable, that if the large new root-suckers of other perennial 
plants, which do not bear bulbous or tuberous roots, and which are late in 
ripening their seeds, or do not ripen them perfectly in this climate, were cut 
or torn off early in the season, as of the palmated rhubarb (rheum 
palmatum), or mule rhubarb (rheum hybridum) ; or if their roots were 
confined in garden-pots, that they might be more liable completely to 
ripen their respective seeds. 
In transplanting strawberries , many of the roots being torn off, fewer 
leaf-buds, and consequent wires, are produced from the difficulty which 
their embryon caudexes find in producing new radicles over the old ones to 
supply nutriment to the wires, till they bend down and protrude roots into 
the ground at their other extremities, whence a great number of flower-buds 
are generated; on this account the roots of strawberries should generally be 
transplanted, or new ones from the wires should be cultivated, every third 
or fourth year, to prevent the too luxuriant growth of their wires; or a 
similar difficulty of producing wires or leaf-buds may be effected by crowding 
the roots of strawberries together, as some gardeners recommend; but I 
suppose by these means the fruit may become smaller from scarcity of 
nutriment, though more numerous. 
A floor of bricks, or of stone, extended about two feet deep beneath the 
roots of wall trees, has been practised in some gardens from an idea, that 
the roots shoot themselves too deep into some unwdiolesome stratum of 
