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Le Bon Jardinier. 



Poiteau observes, that the Corsican pine is much more valu- 

 able both for civil and naval architecture than any of those 

 which grow naturally in France. The mode of grafting 

 adopted by M. Larminat is that invented by the Baron de~ 

 Tschudy, and called by the French herbaceous grafting (greffe 

 herbacee ), (Encyc. of Gard. 2022.) being performed with the 

 current year's growth both of scion and stock. The result of 

 M. Larminat's , experience in grafting the pine and fir tribe is 

 as follows : — First, that Pinus sylvestris is the best stock for 

 pines. Pinus maritimas, or the Bourdeaux pine, was tried, but 

 found inferior to the other. Second, that all the pines may 

 be grafted the one on the other; the firs On the firs, the 

 spruces on the spruces, and the larches on the larches ; but 

 that any one of these kinds grafted on any one of the others will 

 not succeed. Third, that there is only a demi-analogy 

 between the larch and the cedar of Lebanon, and that it is 

 probable that the latter grafted on the former, notwithstanding 

 the experience of M. Lefievre, nurseryman at Nantz, will not 

 produce large trees. Fourth, that the Baron de -Tschudy 

 had made the boundaries of the analogy too limited, by 

 supposing that only pines with two leaves could be grafted on 

 pines with two leaves, and those with three or five leaves with 

 those of three or five leaves, because the Weymouth pine, 

 Pinus strobus, which has five leaves, succeeds perfectly on the 

 wild or Scotch pine, which has only two leaves. Fifth, that 

 the Scotch pine should be grafted at the age of three or four 

 years, and near the ground, that the future trunk may be 

 homogeneous ; and that the scion should be a lateral shoot, in 

 order not to deprive the parent plant of its leader. 



The proper time for grafting pines is when the young 



shoots have made about three 

 quarters of their length, and are 

 still so herbaceous as to break 

 like a shoot of asparagus. The 

 shoot of the stock is then broken 

 off about two inches under its 

 terminating bud ; the leaves are 

 stripped off from twenty to 

 twenty-four lines down from the 

 extremity, leaving, however, two 

 pairs of leaves opposite, and close to the 

 section of fracture, which leaves are of 

 great importance. The shoot is then split 

 with a very thin knife between the two 

 pairs of leaves, {Jig. 19. «,) and to the 

 depth of two inches ; the scion is then pre- 



