season; aftefiit is sown.- Some trees are reproduced, indeed;
drom? cuttings o f youngdranches, without- the necessity
of- sowing any seed; but such cuttings, planted
in 'the'-g-rOund-; must beetmie?-'trunks themselves in the
usual period- of-their^reispeCtive5 inprease^sand' aftete&C-
quiring thekroidinarysize^emit -new branches, before
they become adult, ok capable! of1 fructification*:' but -by
the art of dwarfing^ ari 'abscinded branch committed-'fir
the earth, continues still to fructifyf*. as'; if idhadrfaeen
grafted upon a full -grown tree, with its juieeSwipened
for reproduction.
Thegeneraf fnethod of obtaining vegetable dwarfs is
said to be the following: -a quantity- o f clay;tor mold, is
applied to tbeurpper part of the trunk of a fawferfrom
which a dwarf is intended to be taken, and closesfbwt-s d i vision
into branches. Thernrold is to be confined to the
spot by cbarse&hempen, or cotton, cloth, and to be carefully
kept moist by water. In consequence of this application,
continued sometimes above a twelvemonth,
small tender fibres shoot down like roots from>the-Wood
into the mold. The part of the trunk emitting«th’dse»®ew-
fibres,-together with the branch rising immediately above-
it, is then to be carefully-separated from the rest-df _the
tree, and planted in new earth, in which the fibres' be?
come new roots, while the former branch is now th |
stem o f the vegetable, thus transformed in some measure^
This-operation does not destroy or alter the productive
faculty-wihich those parts enj oy Idpeforevfhep5- sépara-,
tion;#ronkt?kèir parent-<r©.éte^;hat*pvhiehi. while abtanch I
o£ the oiâtginah trde,, por j^flo wers^and fruit j-i'eontippgs t<3 j
produce itthe sam ^ h i« n o long^rrlupd^l;uppp^»y I
stocks ,'T4ëiterminal buds of #udh bmnch4s|of,t^es
as t are-'MaeanA to4beGome/ dwarf®, fiar#; t©rni,^ff ;| which
oircumst-an^prevents, the* fu^ her^jp^fmn. of'those
blanches*,‘and forces other buds apdbranchle^frqm^he
sides.* Thesedranehlefexaf4M®^fh^^ifes; td^vhafe.Ypr I
formtthefopeajatQr w ish e^ ln d w&p th ^ a p p e am ç^ /
• îvgfi^nd J^aydlWeapt to.p% gi%(^tp&aasdwarf tre.% it, .p
repeatedly 'smeared* wipi* treacle p^-m^h^^i^which at-,
traGts muitifcudestpf^nts^whov ift> pursuit ,af those- sy^et I
juices,;..attack the^bafk,andr by^gradu^prrosion^oT it,
r-proédcllthevdesireèefiê^ Thes.e-difFerepfepaiocesscsSare
‘•sometimes attempted- to pe kep,b;-segEe%-by(l ;th^g^rdep^rs,
and fbey-pary designedly* in |he ipode-of carryingfhe|a
on^C'bs# the ,prin,ci piemen rwhieh tfeey.ajij^Qunded is sufficiently
.apparent frem w-batdS', related Pssflgf and, the
contrivance argues gather
than .the. praotice-âcesitrue taste, w»h&;hve,opsins in*s#£"
sisting uaturedn its most favourite works fm^in-coup-
. teracting itsfeperatisns^ordi^^tingnit^f rodkotoP^Si^l
-«.While the party w e^^éi^Rg^nformationstoii^^p
subj eetg’.before therm in -the h'plypi'j&udience ,»j^,eir attention
was quickly ©ailed to the b u s in ^ h a th a d bro y â t
% them there;, py the- arrival o f .thesgpverm^ He was