CONTENTS. Xlll 



Chap. . Page 



88. Trees planted by Agamemnon the first year of the Trojan war : 



other trees which date from the time that the place was called 

 Ilium, anterior to the Trojan war 431 



89. Trees planted at Argos by Hercules : others planted by Apollo. 



A tree more ancient than Athens itself ib. 



90. Trees which are the most short-lived 432 



91. Trees which have been rendered famous by remarkable events . . ib. 



92. Plants which have no peculiar spot for their growth : others that 



grow upon trees, and will not grow in the ground. Nine va- 

 rieties of them : cadytas, polypodion, phaulias, hippophseston 433 



93. Three varieties of mistletoe. The nature of mistletoe and similar 



plants 434 



94. The method of making birdlime 435 



95. Historical facts connected with the mistletoe 435 



BOOK XVII. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES. 



1. Trees which have been sold at enormous prices . . 438 



2. The influence of weather upon trees : what is the proper situation 



for tbe vine 441 



3. What soils are to be considered the best 446 



4. The eight kinds of earth boasted of by the Gauls and Greeks . . 452 



5. The employment of ashes 455 



6. Manure ..456 



7. Crops which tend to improve the land : crops which exhaust it . . 459 



8. The proper mode of using manure ib. 



9. The modes in which trees bear 460 



10. Plants which are propagated by seed ib. 



11. Trees which never degenerate 461 



12. Propagation by suckers 463 



13. Propagation by slips and cuttings 464 



14. Seed-plots #■ 



15. The mode of propagating the elm 467 



16. The holes for transplanting .. 468 



17. The intervals to be left between trees .. 472 



18. The nature of the shadow thrown by trees .. ._. 473 



19. The droppings of water from the leaves - : .. 474 



20. Trees which grow but slowly : those which grow with rapidity .. 475 



21. Trees propagated from layers } b. 



22. Grafting : the first discovery of it 477 



23. Inoculation or budding - *»■ 



24. The various kinds of grafting % b. 



25. Grafting the vine 482 



26. Grafting by scutcheons 483 



27. Plants which grow from a branch 485 



28. Trees which grow from cuttings : the mode of planting them . . 486 



29. The cultivation of the olive ib - 



