ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IV. xiv. i 4 -xv. 2 



produce a good crop of fruit ; but, I imagine, they 

 have not been so well observed. 



Of the effects on trees of removing baric, head, heart-wood, 

 roots, etc.; of various causes of death. 



XV. l Next we must mention what trees perish 

 when certain parts are removed. All perish alike, if 

 the bark is stripped off all round ; one may say that 

 every tree, except the andrachne, 2 perishes under 

 these circumstances ; and this tree does so also, if 

 one does violence to the flesh, and so breaks off the 

 new growth 3 which is forming. However one 

 should perhaps except the cork-oak; for this, they 

 say, is all the stronger if its bark is stripped off, that 

 is, the outer bark and also that which lies below it 

 next the flesh as with the andrachne. For the 

 bark is also stripped from the bird-cherry the vine 

 and the lime (and from this the ropes are made), 

 and, among smaller plants, from the mallow ; but in 

 these cases it is not the real nor the first bark which 

 is taken, but that which grows above that, which 

 even of its own accord sometimes falls off because 

 fresh bark is forming underneath. 



4 In fact some trees, as andrachne and plane, have 

 a bark which cracks. 5 As some think, in many cases 

 a new bark forms 6 underneath, while the outer bark 

 withers and cracks and in many cases falls off of its 

 own accord ; but the process is not so obvious as it is 

 in the above mentioned cases. Wherefore, as they 

 think, all trees are destroyed by stripping the bark, 

 though the destruction is not in all cases equally 



6 cf. C.P. 3. 18. 3. <f)\otoppa.yr) %via conj. Mold.; <f>\oiop- 

 payta pia UMV; <pv\\opoyla p.ia Aid. 



conj. W.; viro<pvti Ald.H. 



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