उपवनविनोद (आचार्य शार्ङ्गधर - वृक्षायुर्वेद, भू-जल संधान एवं उद्यान-विज्ञान सटीक)

86 UPAVANA VINODA
200. If the cut stem of a tree (cuttings) be besmeared with boiled sugar-
cane juice, and sugar-cane juice be applied to its roots, it bears flowers out of
season.
201. If sesamum oil-cakes, viḍaṅga, and cowdung, be applied to the root
of a tree, and is sprinkled with sugar-cane juice, it produces flowers out of
season which are very pleasing to all men.
202. If yaṣṭimadhu, sugar, kuṣṭha, flowers of Madhuka be pasted
together and applied to the root of a tree it produces fruits without seeds
within.
203. One should cut a big disc of bark from the trunk of a tree so as
to make a hole fit enough for taking in medicine, fill it up with the flowers
of Madhuka, Guñjā, śarkarā, ripe udumbara and honey, and then replace
the said disc and besmear the affected parts with the dung of calves, bind
it and apply to it any sweet liquid ; (if this is done) the tree is sure to bear
stoneless fruits.
204. If the branches of a tree are well wrapped with the neck skins
of goats recently killed its fruits never ripen.
205. If the root of a tree is pierced (injected) with the gullet of the
monkey that has been rubbed with the exudation of an elephant, its fruits do
not ripen within a year of the process.
206. If the branch of a tree is wrapped in straw and leather, and is
pasted over with viḍaṅga, honey and milk, and if milk and water is
sprinkled over it, it bears ripe fruits for a long time to come.
207. All kinds of seeds marvellously sprout and fructify when sprinkled
with the decoction of fish, pig's flesh, fat and milk compounded together,
and then fumigated.
208. If a seed is repeatedly bathed in oil extracted out of the Aṅkola
fruit mixed with the fat of pig and porpoise, and then sown in earth and
sprinkled over with spring water, it sprouts in no time.
209-210. The seeds of mango and other trees if bathed for a long
time in a decoction of fish, viḍaṅga, Aṅkola oil, milk and clarified butter
and then sown, the trees that sprout of them assume gigantic size. And
if that seed is repeatedly rubbed with the ashes of cowdung,dried and sown,
a fruitful tree which sprouts from it, becomes delightful to all.
211. If pomegranate seeds are treated 21 times in the blood of hen,
within a short time trees sprout out of them and fructify (when sown).
212. The seeds, that are treated with the compound made up of fish,
pig's fat, flesh and ashes of gram, when sown develop very soon into trees full
of flowers and fruits.
213. The tree whose trunk is strongly pierced from all directions with
bones of pig, never dries or perishes.