Excerpt from Histoire du Rapprochement des Végétaux
L'art du rapprochement des Végétaux est beaucoup plus an cien qu'on' ne le croit. Eliam, voyageur du neuvième siècle, dit que les peuples d'0mbrie cal cinaient les roseaux pour en obe tenir des sels; qu'ils faisaient en outre à l'époque de l'automne, de grands amas de feuilles qu'ils étendàient dans _de larges fosses, pour fertiliser leurs terres et leurs vergers; et qu'ils unissaient les branches de certains arbres avec d'autres, pour se procurer des fruits plus agréables, plus volu mineux, et des arbres beaucoup plus gros. Il ajoute qu 113 avaient donné 'la cette opération le nom de mariage des plantes.
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