A discovery of the true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn; with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants / By Dr. Wolfius.

  • Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754.
Date:
1734
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Credit: A discovery of the true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn; with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants / By Dr. Wolfius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plants that can be pruned \ and of others, where Pruning won't fucceed, we fee, that the fir 11 have a Bark which eafily burfts, but that the latter have a Bark, which, with greater difficulty is forc'd away and fplit. For inltance, Vines are eafily pruned, but then the Bark of them is not only very thin, but breaks alfo in an Inftant. §. 12. Mr.Agricola, a Phyfician at Ratisbon, who is pleafed to fpend his By-hours in ufeful Enquiries into Nature, and who has offer'd feveral Projefts I to make a general Application of thefe Methods of Multiplicating of Trees that have not been ufed hitherto but in fome forts of Trees, has fhewn alfo how to prune Trees of all Sorts to the bell Advan¬ tage in the firftPart of his EJfay on the aniverfalMul¬ tiplication of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, §. i<5o. Sq. §. 13 I leave it to others to judge, how much ; this Proje61 is to be rely'd upon, into which, as the Author fays, p» 143, he fell by Chance, and I when he had no Notion of the Art of expelling Roots. For he not only begs of the Reader, in the Preface to the firft Part, tha the would publilh nothing againft his Proje£tsif they Ihould not prove every where to anfwer his Expe&ation, he think¬ ing himfelf able and fincere enough to reform or re¬ fute them in the aforefaid Cafe \ but he has a&ually faid fomething againll it in the fecond Part of his Efiays, p. 16, with an Opennefs becoming the Learned. 14. I have taken Notice of this Method of Mr. Agricolds to bring forth Roots out of Trees in general, with no other View, but that an Obje&i- on might be drawn from it againft my Explication 1 of Pruning, (§. 7.) which I mull folve to make it free from all Manner of Doubt.