ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. in. 8-iv. 2 



oak the oak-moss, in the pine the ' flowering tuft.' l 

 The people of Macedonia say that these trees also 

 produce no flowers Phoenician cedar beech aria 2 

 (holm-oak) maple. Others distinguish two kinds of 

 Phoenician cedar, of which one bears flowers but 

 bears no fruit, while the other, though it has no 

 flower, bears a fruit which shows itself at once 3 

 just as wild figs produce their abortive fruit. How- 

 ever that may be, 4 it is a fact that this is the only 

 tree which keeps its fruit for two years. These 

 matters then need enquiry. 



Of the times of budding and fruiting of wild, as compared 



with cultivated, trees. 



IV. Now the budding of wild trees occurs in some 

 cases at the same time as that of the cultivated forms, 

 but in some cases somewhat, and in some a good 

 deal later ; but in all cases it is during the spring 

 season. But there is greater diversity in the time of 

 fruiting ; as we said before, the times of ripening do 

 not correspond to those of budding, but there are 

 wide differences. For even in the case of those 

 trees which are somewhat late in fruiting, which 

 some say take a year to ripen their fruit such as 

 Phoenician cedar and kermes-oak, the budding 

 nevertheless takes place in the spring. Again there 

 are differences of time between individual trees of 

 the same kind, according to the locality ; those in 

 the marshes bud earliest, as the Macedonians say, 

 second to them those in the plains, and latest those 

 in the mountains. 



Again of particular trees some wild ones bud 



3 i.e. without antecedent flower. 



4 5' oSvconj.W.; trx^v UMVAld. 



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