ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. ix. 1-3 



such as apple ; some have many branches, and theii 

 greater mass of growth high up, as the pomegranate : 

 however 1 training position and cultivation chiefly 

 contribute to all of these characters. In proof of 

 which we have the fact that the same trees which, 

 when growing close together, are tall and slender, 

 when grown farther apart become stouter and 

 shorter ; and if we from the first let the branches 

 grow freely, the tree becomes short, whereas, if we 

 prune them, it becomes tall, for instance, the vine. 

 This too is enough for proof that even some pot- 

 herbs acquire the form of a tree, as we said 2 of 

 mallow and beet. Indeed all things grow well in 

 congenial places. . . . 3 For even among those of the 

 same kind those which grow in congenial places have 

 less knots, and are taller and more comely : thus the 

 silver-fir in Macedon is superior to other silver-firs, 

 such as that of Parnassus. Not only is this true of 

 all these, 4 but in general the wild woodland is more 

 beautiful and vigorous on the north side of the 

 mountain than on the south. 



As to shedding of leaves. 



Again some 5 trees are evergreen, some deciduous. 

 Of cultivated trees, olive date-palm bay myrtle a 

 kind of fir and cypress are evergreen, and among 

 wild trees silver-fir fir Phoenician cedar yew 6 odorous 

 cedar the tree which the Arcadians call ' cork-oak ' 

 (holm-oak) mock-privet prickly cedar ' wild 7 pine ' 

 tamarisk box kermes-oak holly alaternus cotoneaster 

 hybrid arbutus 8 (all of which grow about Olympus) 



7 aypia after irlrvs conj. Sch.; after itpivos UPAld.: cf. 

 3. 3. 3. 



8 i<6/j.apos conj. Bod.; trivapos UMV; olvapos Aid.; vvvapos P 2 . 



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