324 METHOD OP PROPAGATING FRUIT TREES* 



Fruit vritjiout It will seem singular, that the Chinese entertain the same 

 bv dividing the °pi n i° n that Linna»us did, respecting the pith of trees be- 

 pith of trees, ing essential to the formation of the seed. By cutting into 

 the trunk of the guava tree before it has produced, and 

 making a division in the pith, they have obtained fruit with- 

 out seed. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your obedient Servant, 



JAMES HOWISON. 



Reference to the Engraving, Plate IX, Fig. 1 , of the Chinese 

 Method of propagating Fruit Trees by Abscission. 

 Explanation of A. The tree on which the operation is performed, 

 the plate. g # f\ ie s t r aw rope wound in a ball round a branch of 



the tree. 



C. The cocoa-nut shell, or vessel, containing the water, 

 which gradually drops thence on the ball below it. 



D. Another branch of the same tree, from which the part 

 E, rooted in the straw rope or ball, and now ready for 

 planting out, has been separated. 



F. The vessel suspended from a branch above, and from 

 which the ball has been supplied with water. 



II. 



Description of a Gauge or Measure for standing Timber, 

 invented by Mr. James Broad, of Downing Street *. 



SIR, 



Standing tim- A HE Instrument I send herewith is for finding the girth 

 ber liable to be f standing timber, and will, I flatter myself, be found ex- 

 erroneously, ceedingly useful to all gentlemen, and others having timber 

 to dispose of, and likewise to such purchasers as wish to 

 pay for the true quantity. At present a gentleman having 

 timber to dispose of is liable to be imposed on to a very 

 large amount; for though some surveyors may be found 

 whose eye is pretty accurate, yet this is far from being 



* Trans, of Soc. of Arts, vol. xxv, p. 18. 



generally 



