. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. u The Canadian HORTICUI/rLRI': AX .WCIICNT IXDL'STKV. " Tlius far of tillage ami of heavenly signs, Now sing, my Muse, the growth of generous vines. Some trees their birth to Kounteous Nature owe ; For some without the pains of planting grow. These ways of planting Nature did ordain ; I'or trees and shruhs and all the sylvan reign. But various are the ways to change the state (ii plants : to hud, to graft, and to inoculate. 'Tis usual now an inmate graft to see, With insolence invade a foreign
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. u The Canadian HORTICUI/rLRI': AX .WCIICNT IXDL'STKV. " Tlius far of tillage ami of heavenly signs, Now sing, my Muse, the growth of generous vines. Some trees their birth to Kounteous Nature owe ; For some without the pains of planting grow. These ways of planting Nature did ordain ; I'or trees and shruhs and all the sylvan reign. But various are the ways to change the state (ii plants : to hud, to graft, and to inoculate. 'Tis usual now an inmate graft to see, With insolence invade a foreign tiee. Thus pears and quinces from the crab-tree come, And thus the ruddy cornel bears the plum. Then let the learned gardner mark with care, The kinds of stock and what each kind will bear : the nature of each several tree, Ami, known, improve tlieaitfid Iti(/u^fri/." li L'S wrote Virgil two thousand years ago. And wliat \'irgil enjoined the ancients to do, in the two last lines quoted, is just what the Canadian Horticulturist and the Ontario Fruit Crowers' Association are endeavoring to in- struct the people of this age and of this land in doing. To explore the nature of each several tree and with the know- ledge gained to improve the artful—and we hope profitable as well—industry of fruit culture. In ])erusing Virgil, especially through his second Ceorgic, one is amazed at the knowledge the ancients had of the arts of horticulture. It is enough to take some of the nineteenth century conceit out of us when we come to contemplate that without the advantage of our-day literature, or the fruit growers' associations, there was no art in horticulture unknown to the ancients that we know and practice in this age. In some respects it would seem that they were more successful in their arts than we are on this continent of America, fur N'irgil, after describing all the methods and minutiae of cutting, tipping, lay- ering, budding, grafting, etc., he says: &qu
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