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



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

 and box are ver}- 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-) though, according to the Arcadians, 

 still later than these and almost latest of all are 

 teiragonia ^ odorous cedar and yew. Such then 

 are the differences as to the time of shedding and 

 ripening their fruit between wild* as compared 

 with cultivated trees, and likewise as compared with 

 one another. 



Of the itasons of bwldiuy. 



V. * 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 sejiarate sets of buds ; wherefore 

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

 tree loses its bark when it is budding. This first 

 happens in mid-spring "^ 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 ^ puts on 

 fresh buds which start from the head of the knobby 

 growth 1** which formed at the first budding-time; and 

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

 all round it laterally,^- using the knob formed at the 



* rpiaXoToi conj. Sch.; TpiaXoixoi UM,V; rpiaXfroi MjAld. 

 c/. 4. 15. 3 ; 5. 1. 1. 



' €opoy conj. R. Const.; atpos VAld. c/. Plin. I.e. 



* About May. 



* What follows evidently applies only to the oak. 



^^ Kopvyrifffus conj. Sch.; Kopivris ?«s UMV; Kopixprjs e«s 

 Aid. 

 11 c/. 3. 6. 2. 12 rh add. Sch. 



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