[1527]. Geop. iv. 4, seq.
[1528]. Geop. iv. 12.
[1529]. Virg. Georg. ii. 265, seq.
[1530]. Lord Bacon gives this experiment a place in his philosophy, observing, that “in all trees when they be removed (especially fruit-trees) care ought to be taken that the sides of the trees be coasted (north and south) and as they stood before.” Sylva Sylvarum, 471.
[1531]. Virg. Georg. ii. 270, seq.
[1532]. An analogous practice is observed in the pepper gardens of Sumatra:—“When the vines originally planted to any of the chinkareens (or props) are observed to fail or miss; instead of replacing them with new plants, they frequently conduct one of the shoots, or suckers, from a neighbouring vine, to the spot, through a trench made in the ground, and there suffer it to rise up anew, often at the distance of twelve or fourteen feet from the parent stock.” Marsden, History of Sumatra, p. 111.
[1533]. Virg. Georg. ii. 26. Serv. ad loc.
[1534]. Geop. iv. 2. The nymphs are said to have been the nurses of Bacchos, because water supplied moisture to the vine. The explanation of Athenæus is forced and cold. ii. 2.
[1535]. Geop. v. 7, seq. Virg. Georg. ii. 323, sqq.
[1536]. Geop. v. 10.