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its own accord. The Salarian 4f chesnut has a smooth outer 

 shell, while that of Tarentum is not so easily handled. 48 The 

 Corellian is more highly esteemed, as is the Etereian, which is 

 an offshoot from it produced by a method upon which we shall 

 have to enlarge when we come to speak of grafting. 49 This 

 last has a red skin, 50 which causes it to be preferred to the 

 three-cornered chesnut and our black common sorts, which 

 are known as " coctivae." 51 Tarentum and Neapolis in Cam- 

 pania are the most esteemed localities for the chesnut : other 

 kinds, again, are grown to feed pigs upon, 52 the skin of which 

 is rough and folded inwards, so as to penetrate to the heart of 

 the kernel. 



CHAP. 26. (24.) THE CAROB. 



The carob, 53 a fruit of remarkable sweetness, does not ap- 

 pear to be so very dissimilar to the chesnut, except that the 

 skin 54 is eaten as well as the inside. It is just the length of 

 a finger, and about the thickness of the thumb, being some- 

 times of a curved shape, like a sickle. The acorn cannot be 

 reckoned in the number of the fruits ; we shall, therefore, 

 speak of it along with the trees of that class. 55 



CHAP. 27. THE FLESHY FRUITS. THE MULBERRY. 



The other fruits belong to the fleshy kind, and differ both 

 in the shape and the flesh. The flesh of the various ber- 

 ries, 56 of the mulberry, and of the arbute, are quite dif- 

 ferent from one another — and then what a difference, too, 

 between the grape, which is only skin and juice, 57 the myxa 

 plum, and the flesh of some berries, 58 such as the olive, for 



47 The Ganebelone chesnut of Perigueux, Fee says, answers to this 

 description. 



48 On account of the prickles on the outer shell. 49 B. xvii. c. 26. 

 50 Fee says that the royal white chesnut of the vicinity of Perigueux 



answers to this. si << Boiling" chesnuts. 



52 He alludes to wild or horse chesnuts, probably. 



63 See B. xiii. c. 16. 



5i This skin is not eatable. It is fibrous and astringent. 



65 In B. xvi. c. 6. 



56 " Acinis." The grape, ivy-berry, elder-berry, and others. 



57 " Inter cutem succumque." 



5S Baccis. Some confusion is created by the non-existence of English 



