BOOK III 



OF WILD TREES. 

 Of the ways in which wild trees originate. 



I. Now that we have spoken of cultivated trees, 

 we must in like manner speak of wild ones., noting 

 in what respects they agree with or differ from 

 cultivated trees, and whether in any respects their 

 character is altogether peculiar to themselves. 



Now the ways in which they come into being are 

 fairly simple ; they all grow either from seed or from 

 a root. But the reason of this is not that they 



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could not possibly grow in any other way, but merely 

 perhaps that no one even tries to plant them other- 

 wise ; whereas they might grow l from slips, if they 

 were provided with a suitable position and received 

 the fitting kind of tendance, as may be said even 

 now of the trees of woodland and marsh, such as 

 plane willow abele black poplar and elm ; all these 

 and other similar trees grow very quickly and well 

 when they are planted from pieces torn off, so that - 

 they survive, even if at the time of shifting they are 

 already tall and as big as trees. Most of these are 

 simply planted by being set firmly, for instance, the 

 abele and the black poplar. 



Such is the way in which these originate as well 

 as from seed or from roots ; the others grow only 



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