ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. iv. 6-v. i 



that holly loses its fruit owing to the winter. Lime J 

 and box are very late in fruiting, (lime has a fruit 

 which no animal can eat, and so have cornel and 

 box. Ivy Phoenician cedar fir and andrachne are 

 late fruiting 2 ) though, according to the Arcadians, 

 still later than these and almost latest of all are 

 teiragonia z odorous cedar and yew. Such then 

 are the differences as to the time of shedding and 

 ripening their fruit between wild 4 as compared 

 with cultivated trees, and likewise as compared with 

 one another. 



Of the seasons of budding. 



V. 5 Now most trees, when they have once begun 

 to bud, make their budding and their growth con- 

 tinuously, but with fir silver-fir and oak there are 

 intervals. They make three fresh starts in growth 

 and produce three separate sets of buds ; wherefore 

 also they lose their bark thrice 6 a year. For every 

 tree loses its bark when it is budding. This first 

 happens in mid-spring 7 at the very beginning of the 

 month Thargelion, 8 on Mount Ida within about 

 fifteen days of that time ; later, after an interval of 

 about thirty days or rather more, the tree 9 puts on 

 fresh buds which start from the head of the knobby 

 growth 10 which formed at the first budding-time; and 

 it makes its budding partly on the top of this, 11 partly 

 all round it laterally, 12 using the knob formed at the 



8 rplff\OTroi conj. Sch.; TpiffXonroi UM V; TpfcrAeTrot M x Ald. 

 cf. 4. 15. 3; 5. 1.1. 



7 eapos conj. R. Const.; aeoos VAld. cf. Plin. I.e. 



8 About May. 



9 What follows evidently applies only to the oak. 



10 Kopwriatas conj. Sch.; Kopvvrjs ccos UMV; K0pv$r\s ews 

 Aid. 



11 cf. 3. 6. 2. 12 ra add. Sch, 



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