CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Differences in taste 85 



Differences in flowers 89 



Differences in fruits 97 



General differences (affecting the whole plant) .... 99 



BOOK II 



OF PROPAGATION, ESPECIALLY OF TREES 



Of the ways in which trees and plants originate. In- 

 stances of degeneration from seed 105 



Effects of situation, climate, tendance 115 



Of spontaneous changes in the character of trees, and 



of certain marvels 119 



Of spontaneous and other changes in other plants . . . 123 



Of methods of propagation, with notes on cultivation . 127 

 Of the propagation of the date-palm ; of palms in 



general • 133 



Further notes on the propagation of trees 145 



Of the cultivation of trees 145 



Of remedies for tlie shedding of the fruit : caprification 151 



BOOK III 



OF WILD TREES 



Of the ways in which wild trees originate 159 



Of tlie differences between wild and cultivated trees . 165 

 Of mountain trees : of the differences found in wild trees 171 

 Of the times of budding and fruiting of M'ild, as com- 

 pared with cultivated, trees 179 



Of the seasons of budding 185 



Of the comparative rate of growth in trees, and of the 



length of their roots 191 



Of the effects of cutting down the whole or part of a tree 197 

 Of other things borne by trees besides their leaves 



flowers and fruit 199 



Of * male ' and ' female ' in trees : the oak as an example 



of this and other differences 203 



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