ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. xiii. 5-xiv. 2 



plants of the same kind ; and the like may be said ^ 

 in general of those which cannot mature their fruit. 

 And it is plain from what has been said that flowers 

 shew many differences of character. 



Differences in fruits. 



XIV. Again as to the production of fruit trees 

 differ in the folloAving respects. Some bear on their 

 new shoots, some on last year's wood, some on both. 

 Fig and \-ine bear on their new shoots ; on last year's 

 wood olive pomegranate apple almond pear myrtle 

 and almost all such trees. And, if any of these does * 

 happen to conceive and to produce flowers on its new 

 shoots, (for this does occur in some cases, as with 

 myrtle, and especially, one may say, in the growth 

 which is made at^er the rising of Arcturus) ^ it can 

 not bring them to perfection, but they perish half- 

 formed. Some apples again of the twice-bearing * 

 kinds and certain other fruit-trees bear both on last 

 year's wood and on the new shoots ; and so does the 

 olynihos,^ which ripens its fruit as well as bearing figs 

 on the new shoots. 



Most peculiar is the growtli of fruit direct from 

 the stem, as in the sycamore ; for this, they say, 

 bears fruit on the stem. Others say that it bears 

 both in this way and "^ also on the branches, like the 

 carob ; for the latter bears on the branches too, 

 though not abundantly : (the name carob is given to 

 the tree which produces what are called ' Egyptian 



' 6Xyydoi is not elsewhere used for a kind of fig: fri 5« 

 rvKrf Tovs oXvvOous fK-rerTovaa, koI gvKa <t>fpovaa conj. Sch. 

 somewhat drastically. 



• ravTTi T« Kol iK conj. W. ; ravTiji fiiy iK UMVAld. cf. 

 4. 2. 4. 



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