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Excerpt from Autumn, or the Causes, Appearances, and Effects of the Seasonal Decay and Decomposition of Nature
IT is, perhaps, more difficult to define the time, and explain, in popular language, the phenomena of Au tumu and their causes, than it is in the case of any other season of the varied year. This is, in part, owing to the indefinite occurrence of Autumnal action, but more so to its compound and very complicated nature.
The two great parts of the compound are these First, Autumn takes up the new or successional race, (we speak of the vegetable kingdom, as the one which must abide the seasons, ) - and whether it consists in seed, in tuber, in bulb, or in any thing else, carries it onward to such maturity as that it shall be safe during the winter. Secondly, Autumn reduces to an elemen' tary state, or prepares for reducing to that state, all that portion of the vegetable kingdom which has performed its function for the year, and is not to be stimulated into new action at any future time.
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