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attempting to graft them, the third year being about as early as 
it is prudent to do it. If a plant is very full of leaf it is desirable 
to leave it alone and not to graft it at all, for a reason which will 
appear Maie and also because being leafy it may be taken to be 
a good variety. The season for grafting here is from the middle 
of May to ihe end of June, the grafter being careful to see that the 
bark opens easily. The best plan is to graft on the boughs and 
not on the stem, leaving the smaller boughs to utilise the winter 
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can also be satisfactorily budded, or grafted by sawing off the 
trunk and cleaving it. In windy situations it will be necessary 
to bind canes to the grafted eese: to stiffen them, and to prevent 
the grafts from moving. est two varieties of carob are both 
called here the “ Honey bug ^ : one bears a long narrow pod, the 
other a short wide one. 
he = aad of leaving a fair sprinkling (say 25 per cent.) of 
ungrafted trees in a grove is the following. The grafted tree ne. 
duces almost dato E female ilowers, the ungrafted tree males 
Unless these flowers are in due proportion there can be no crop ; 
and in fact this was the Ie cause of the failure of a carob 
grove in Sicily, a cause which was discovered and remedied by 
Professor Bianca. In planting hese trees on ordinary arable land 
great in ome will often be found in the plants, Misi ek 
from the fact that the carob cannot support water, e enc ere 
water diui anal in the subsoil the tree will not grow, w bam eas, 
where the water drains away, it will grow dir and for this 
reason a hill side is the best situation for a grove. 
Some ees ago the Italian Alpine Club agreed that it would 
be greatly to the advantage of sem Italy, and would add 
materially to the attractions of the mountain scenery, if the 
Apennines, which are now for the iion part quite bare, could be 
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Signor Savastano, the professor of arboriculture in the school of 
agriculture at Portici, near Naples, who gave it as his opinion that 
the mountains where the lentisk and the myrtle grow freely 
enough could be utilised to produce the more remunerative carob. 
o the obvious advantage of reafforesting the mountains, and thus 
adding to the rainfall, would be added the production of a valuable 
crop where nothing saleable had grown before 
e great carob-growing districts of South Italy are in the Bari 
region, on the ven d coast, and quantities are exported annually 
to Russia and Centra ] Europe from Brindisi and the other ports 
along p coast. Though the tree may be seen in almost any 
garden here, and is not uncommonly found on the mountains, the 
only person who has made a hobby of its iris is the Prince 
of Belmonte, who has large d in the province of Salerno, 
not far from the ruins of Paes Besides S rium several trees 
in a shrubbery, the Prince Dies long avenue of them leading 
up to his house, which is particularly (ken on and is, we 
bales the only avenue of its kind. The trees are planted 
7 metres apart, and the largest a them has a ink of 85 oan 
metres (about 2 feet 9 inches) in. yh oca dac This tree 1 
8 years old, and its top is from 6 to7 metres in diameter, dl 
