204 PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. [CH. VIII. 



Mr. Forsyth received a pai'liamentary grant of 

 money for his discovery ; but this, as Mr. Ivnight 

 obsen-es, " affords a much better proof that he -was 

 paid for an impoitaut discovery than that he made 

 one." 



" Should the pubhc," continues this distinguished 

 physiologist, " believe that an old dying tree can be 

 restored to youth and vigour, merely by being 

 plastered with lime, cow-dung, and wood ashes, and 

 that a piece of such tree may by such means be 

 made immortal, I think it would be a good spe- 

 culation for some enterprising genius, in imita- 

 tion of the quack doctors of the sixteenth century, 

 to bring forward a nostnim to restore and per- 

 petuate youth in the human subject. Should such 

 a projector join Mr. Forsyth, and the one imder- 

 take the animal, and the other the vegetable world, 

 under Dr. Andersons patronage, I will ventm'e 

 to predict that the success of each in the cures 

 they perform will be equal." 

 j It has been very ingeniously suggested, that, if a 

 1 destruction of the bark by external violence, txnd 

 consequently, likely to terminate in canker, has 

 1 occurred, it would be a good plan to insert, as in 

 budding, a piece of living bark, exactly correspond- 

 ing to the excision, from a less valuable tree. 



In conclusion, I would enforce upon the or- 

 chai'dist s attention the importance of obtaining his 



