[3002] Taken from Cato, De Re Rust. c. 133.
[3003] The Juniperus sabina of Linnæus: see B. xxiv. c. 61. It produces seed, and there is only one variety that is barren; the plant being, in reality, diœceous.
[3004] The rosemary, in reality, is a hermaphroditic plant, and in all cases produces seed.
[3006] This, Fée remarks, is in reality no more a case of grafting than the growing of a tree from seed accidentally deposited in the cleft of a rock.
[3007] Still used for the reproduction of fruit-trees and shrubs in the pleasure garden.
[3008] Georg. ii. 73.
[3009] This story is borrowed from Theophrastus, De Caus. B. ii. c. 19. Fée remarks, that it is very doubtful if an operation of so coarse a nature could be productive of such results; and he says, that, at all events, the two woods must have been species of the same genus, or else individuals of the same family. The mode of grafting here described is called by agriculturists in foreign countries, “Pliny’s graft.”
[3010] These statements as to the locality of the sap are erroneous.
[3011] The fig is the only fruit that is not improved by grafting; but then it is not similar to most fruit, being, as Fée says, nothing more than a fleshy floral receptacle.