The Origin of Laws, Arts, And Sciences : And Their Progress Among the Most Ancient of Nations 1
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ann. 1712. M. p. 117.
k See ibid. ann. 1721. H. p. 61. ann. 1738. M. p. 265> a5<5« I M, Duhammel alFures us, that the branch of a wild tree, ingrafted upon its own root gains fomething. A kind of gland formed at the place of iufertion, fomewhiit refines the juices. Acad, dcs fcieiices, ann. 17*8. H. p. 47* Macrobius* Book II, Cf Jris and Mamifaclures. tig Macrobius. That author afferts, that Saturn taught the people of Latium the art of ingrafting trees'". But this aflertioa feems to me improbable, and the more fo, as, in the age of Homer and Hefiod^, the Greeks do not appear to have had any knowledge of ingrafting, or the operations relating to it.
It appears to me demonftrated, that not only in the ages we are now treating of, but a long time after, mankind were as ignorant in the cultivation of trees as a great many nations in Afia and America are at this day. In the greater India and in Perfia there are a great many fruit-trees, but almoft all wild. Ingrafting is there unknown °.
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