ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VII. iv. 10-12 



from the upper only foliage ; while, if the plant is 

 divided vertically, no growth at all takes place. The 

 kind called horn- onion has no l head/ * but has as 

 it were a long neck, at the top of which comes the 

 new growth ; it is often cut, like the leek ; where- 

 fore it is raised from seed and not planted. 2 Such 

 then, one may say, are the forms of the onion. 



3 Garlic is planted a little before or after the solstice, 

 when it divides into cloves. 4 There are different kinds 

 distinguished as late or early, for there is one kind 

 which matures in 5 sixty days. There are also 

 differences as to size. There is one kind which 

 excels in size, especially that variety which is called 

 Cyprian, which is not cooked but used for salads, 

 and, when it is pounded up, it increases wondrously in 

 bulk, making a foaming dressing. There is a further 

 difference, in that some kinds cannot be divided into 

 cloves. The sweetness of taste and smell and the 

 vigour depend on the position 6 and on cultivation, as 

 with other herbs. Garlic reaches maturity from seed, 

 but slowly, for in the first year it acquires a ' head ' 

 which is only as large as that of the leek, but in the 

 next year it divides into cloves, and in the third is 

 fully grown, and is not inferior, indeed some say it 

 is superior, to the garlic which has been planted. 7 

 The growth of the root in garlic and onion is not 

 the same ; in garlic, when the clove has swollen, the 

 whole of it becomes convex 8 ; then it increases and 

 divides again into the cloves, and becomes several 

 plants instead of one by the maturing of the ' hoad,' 



4 ye\yeis conj. Seal, from G (nudeatim divisum) ; ytvi) Aid. 

 t> (v conj. Sch.; ZQtv UMAld. 



6 x^P 05 conj. Dalec. ; &pas UMP 2 Ald. 



7 Sc. not raised from seed. 8 So W. renders. 



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