Chap. 24.] YAEIOUS KINDS OF GRAFTING. 4/7 



is said, too, that lees of wine or pounded wall-bricks make it 

 thrive wonderfully well. Rosemary 5 also is reproduced in a 

 similar manner, as also from cuttings of the branches ; neither 

 savin nor rosemary having any seed. The rhododendrum 6 is 

 propagated by layers and from seed. 



CHAP. 22. (14.) — GEAFTING I THE FIEST EISCOVEEY OF IT. 



Nature has also taught us the art of grafting by means of 

 seed. We see a seed swallowed whole by a famished bird ; 

 when softened by the natural heat of the crop, it is voided, 

 with the fecundating juices of the dung, upon some soft couch 

 formed by a tree ; or else, as is often the case, is carried by the 

 winds to some cleft in the bark of a tree. Hence 7 it is that 

 we see the cherry growing upon the willow, the plane upon 

 the laurel, the laurel upon the cherry, and fruits of various 

 tints and hues all springing from the same tree at once. It is 

 said, too, that the jack-daw, from its concealment of the seeds 

 of plants in holes which serve as its store-houses, gives rise to 

 a similar result. 



CHAP. 23. INOCULATION OE BUDDING. 



In this, too, the art of inoculating 8 took its rise. By the 

 aid of an instrument similar to a shoe-maker's paring-knife 

 an eye is opened in a tree by paring away the bark, and 

 another bud is then enclosed in it, that has been previously re- 

 moved with the same instrument from another tree. This was the 

 ancient mode of inoculation with the fig and the apple. That 

 again, described by Virgil, 9 requires a slight fissure to be 

 made in the knot of a bud which has burst through the bark, 

 and in this is enclosed a bud taken from another tree. Thus 

 far has Nature been our instructor in these matters. 



CHAP. 24. THE VAEIOUS KINDS OF GEAFTING. 



A different mode of engrafting, however, has been taught us 



5 The rosemary, in reality, is a hermaphroditic plant, and in all cases 

 produces seed. 6 g ee j$ xv j c> ^. 



7 This, Fee remarks, is In reality no more a case of grafting than the 

 growing of a tree from seed accidentally deposited in the cleft of a rock. 



8 Still used for the reproduction of fruit-trees and shrubs in the pleasure 

 garden. 9 Georg. ii. 73 



