Assertion: onion's bulb | /r/CreatedBy | examination
Facets:
value: from the stem of the plant
type: OTHER
value: immediately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: But in the plant of which I have given some account, Nature seems to have taken another method: for although, upon viewing it, one would readily and naturally conclude, that the bulbs were produced immediately from the stem of the plant, yet, by examination, it appears, that they are produced from seed, somewhat as other plants, though after a different manner; and that a regular and proper seed-vessel, containing seed (nearly similar to those of the common onion) is previously formed, which, contrary to the common course of Nature, and as if too delicate to receive the principle or impulse of germination, in the universal matrix, instead of falling off, adhere firmly to the stem of the plant; and there, in the order of Providence, without the immediate aid of the Earth, as the common medium or vehicle, but by means of the atmosphere and natural succulence of the mother plant, germinate and produce a bulb, similar to that from which it sprang.