[3022] See B. xxv. c. 40.
[3023] Borrowed from Columella, B. iv. c. 29. This method is still employed for young plants; in France it is called “salting” the plants.
[3024] De Re Rust. 41.
[3025] The first of these methods is now the only one at all employed with the vine; indeed, it is more generally reproduced by means of layers and suckers.
[3026] It is not accurately known what was the form or particular merit of this auger or wimble.
[3027] Fée remarks, that the period here named is very indefinite. May and the early part of June are the periods now selected for grafting the vine.
[3028] This is borrowed from Varro, De Re Rust. B. i. c. 40. In reality, it makes no difference whether the stock is that of a wild tree or of the cultivated species.
[3029] “Emplastrum.” Properly, the little strip of bark, which is fitted in with the eye, and which is plastered or soldered down.
[3030] “Scutula.” So called from its resemblance to a “little shield.”
[3031] De Re Rust. 42.