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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    out of this Shooting, but that the By-fhoots pro¬ ceed from fome where elfe. $. ii. Thus Experience confirmed, what my own Meditation furnimed me with againft the common Explication of the Caufe of Multiplication in Corn, (§. 23. c. 1.) and therefore the foking of Corn loft a good deal of Credit with me, tho’ I fhall tell my Reafon elfewhere, why I cannot wholy reje& it as yet. §. 12. Now I was allured too, that it would not be amifs to examine into the Caufes of more Ears growing out of a lingle Grain. I knew that there was nothing in the Grain but the capital Halm, and that the reft of the Subftance in the Grain of Corn was for its nourifhment, before it can get any from the Ground by the Root. §. 13. The By-halms therefore not growing im¬ mediately out of the Grain, they fprout forth ei¬ ther out of the Root or capital Halm. || §. 14. Agreeably to a manner of an Idea’s ari- fing in the human Mind, which I fhall treat of at length in my next Meditations upon God and the Soul of Men, I knew, that when we are to treat of any | fpeculative Matter, the firft Idea always begins ei¬ ther with the Contemplation of the thing it felf, or of the figns by which it is reprefented to the Mind. §.15.When I reprefented to my felf theClufterof Oats, juft as I faw it ftand in the Garden, I remem¬ ber’d that all the Ears were grown out of the Earth. When I reprefented to my felf again the Condition the Clufter was in after being pulled out' of the Ground, it put me in mind, that indeed every Clufter had its own Root, but that neverlefs the Roots were grown altogether. §. i<5. Experience fhews, that not only the Ex¬ traordinary Shootings come forth out of the j Roots