ON PROPAGATING TREES. 55 



"were then planted or deeply in the soil. The cuttings were then 

 covered with bell glasses in pots, and put upon the flue of a hot- 

 house, and subjected to a temperature of about 80 degrees. 

 Water was very abundantly given, but the under surfaces of the 

 leaves were not wetted. These were in the slightest degree faded 

 though they were fully exposed to the sun; and roots were emit- 

 ted in about fifteen days. I subjected a few cuttings taken from 

 the bearing branches of a mulberry tree, to the same mode of 

 management, and with the same result ; and think it extremly pro- 

 bable, that the different varieties of Camellia, and trees of almost 

 every species, exclusive of the Fir tribe, might be propagated 

 with perfect success and facility by the same means. 



Evergreen trees, of some species, possess the power of ripen- 

 ing their fruit during winter. The common Ivy and the Loquat 

 are well-known examples of this ; and this circumstance, combin- 

 ed with many others, led me to infer that the leaves of such trees 

 possess in a second year the same, or at least, nearly the 

 same power as they possessed in the first. I therefore planted 

 about a month ago, some cuttings of the old double blossomed 

 white and Warrantah Camellia, having reduced the wood to 

 little more than half an inch in length, and cut it off obliquely, so 

 as to present a long surface of it ; and I reduced it further by par- 

 ing it very thin and near to its lower extremities. The leaves 

 continue to look perfectly fresh, and the buds in more than one 

 instance have produced shoots of more than an inch in length, 

 and apparently possessing perfect health and much vigour. Water 

 has been very abundantly given ; because I conceived that the 

 flow of the arterial sap from the leaf would be so great, compara- 

 tively with the quantity of the bark and alburnum of the cuttings, 

 as to preclude the possibility of the rotting of these. 



The cuttings above described, present in the organization, 

 a considerable resemblance to seedling trees of different periods 

 of the growth of the latter. The bud very closely resembles the 

 plumule, and the leaf, the cotyledon, extended into a seed leaf; 

 and the organ which has been, and is called a radicle, is cer- 

 tainly a caudex, and not a root, It is capable of being made to 

 extend in some cases, to more than two hundred times its first 

 length, between two articulations, a power which is not posses- 

 sed in any degree by the roots of trees. Whether the caudex 

 of the cuttings of Camellias above-mentioned, have-emitted, or 



