210 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
3. Bur of this famous tree he fays, (i) un- 
lefs the /patha be cut from the male, and, 
while it retains the down, flowers and duft, 
(2) be fhaken over the fruit of the female ; 
it will never ripen, but fall off: which this 
fprinkling prevents. ‘* For the male, adds 
“he, of both the Jig-tree and the palm-tree, 
“is of ufe to the female, dxy’ } per brov pabicy 
i de nar arroy tpéxov, but in the one (/) there 
is, guofi coitus; in the other it happens af- 
** ter a different manner.” And elfewhere 
“ (m) That the fruit will not continue on the 
** female palm-tree, unlefs the flower of the 
“male with the xosopris be fhaken ‘over it, 
‘Cas fome affirm, is certainly fingular: for 
‘* tho’ there is an evident reafon for caprifica- 
“tion, which it fomewhat refembles; yet 
** none can be affigned for the effect of this 
¥ {prinkling.” And leatt it fhould hence be 
inferred in general, that female trees were 
of themfelves infufficient for fructification, 
without the affiftance of the males; he ob- 
ferves, that in order to fuch a conclufion, this 
ought - 
(i) Hitt. lib. 2. c. 9. 
(4) Rowoproc, 
(/) viz. Palm-tree. 
() Caf. Plant. lib. 3... 23. 
