Chap. 32.] DIFFERENT FLAVOURS OF JUICES. 323 



the produce of a graft 84 upon the laurel. The Macedonian 

 cherry grows on a tree that is very small, 85 and rarely exceeds 

 three cubits in height ; while the chain aacerasus 86 is still smaller, 

 being but a mere shrub. The cherry is one of the first trees 

 to recompense the cultivator with its yearly growth ; it loves 

 cold localities and a site exposed to the north. 67 The fruit 

 are sometimes dried in the sun, and preserved, like olives, in 

 casks. 



CHAP. 31. (26.) THE CORNEL. TOE LENTISK. 



The same degree of care is expended also on the cultivation 

 of the cornel 88 and the lentisk ; 89 that it may not be thought, 

 forsooth, that there is anything that was not made for the 

 craving appetite of man ! Various flavours are blended to- 

 gether, and one is compelled to please our palates by the aid 

 of another — hence it is that the produce of different lands 

 and various climates are so often mingled with one another. 

 For one kind of food it is India that we summon to our 

 aid, and then for another w T e lay Egypt under contribution, 

 or else Crete, or Cyrene, every country, in fact : no, nor does 

 man stick at poisons 90 even, if he can only gratify his longing 

 to devour everything : a thing that will be still more evident 

 when we come to treat of the nature of herbs. 



CUAP. 32. (27.) THIRTEEN DIFFERENT FLAVOURS OF JUICES. 



While upon this subject, it may be as well to state that 

 there are no less than thirteen different flavours 91 belonging 



84 Such a graft is impossible ; the laurel-cherry must have had some 

 other origin. 



85 Fee~suggests that this may he the early dwarf cherry. 



86 Or "ground-cherry ;" a dwarf variety, if, indeed, it was a cherry-tree 

 at all, of which Fee expresses some doubt. 



87 This explains, Fee says, why it will not grow in Egypt. 



88 The Cornus mas of Linnreus. The fruit of the cornel has a tart 

 flavour, but is not eaten in modern Europe, except by school-boys. 



89 That produces mastich. See B. xii, c. 36. 



90 He alludes more especially, perhaps, to the use of cicuta or hemlock 

 by drunkards, who looked upon it as an antidote to the effects of wine. 

 See B. xiv. c. 7. 



91 Fee remarks, that in this enumeration there is no method. Linnaeus 

 enumerates eleven principal flavours in the vegetable kingdom— dry or 

 insipid, aqueous, viscous, salt, acrid, styptic, sweet, fat, bitter, acid, and 

 nauseous ; these terms, however seem, some of them, to he very indefinite. 



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