ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. v. 3-5 



is stronger if it is cut after the ripening of the 

 fruit. 



Now what has been said is peculiar to the above- 

 mentioned trees.^ 2 ^^^\^ tj^g buddings which take 

 place at the rising of the dog-star and at that of 

 Arcturus after the spring budding are common to 

 nearly all, though they may be most clearly seen in 

 cultivated trees, and, among these, especially in fig 

 vine pomegranate, and in general in all those that 

 are luxuriant in growth or are gi'owing in rich soil. 

 Accordingly they say that the budding at the rising 

 of Arcturus is most considerable in Thessaly and 

 Macedonia ^ ; for it also happens that the autumn in 

 these countries is a fair and a long season ; so that 

 the mildness of the climate also contributes. Indeed 

 it is for this reason, one may say, that in Egypt too 

 the trees are always budding, or at least that the 

 process is only suspended for quite a short time. 



Now the facts as to the later buddings apply, as 

 has been said, to all trees alike ; but those which 

 belong to the intervals after the first period of 

 budding ai*e peculiar to those mentioned above. 

 Peculiar to some also is the growth of what are 

 called ' winter buds,' '^ for instance in the above- 

 mentioned trees ; silver-fir fir and oak have them, and 

 also lime hazel chestnut and Aleppo pine. These 

 are found in the oak before the leaf-buds grow, when 

 the spring season is just beginning. This growth 

 consists of a sort of leaf-like formation,^ which occurs 

 between the first swelling of the leaf-buds and the 

 time when they burst into leaf. In the sorb^ it 



^ f(TTt . . . (pvWiKrj: i(TTi conj. R. Const.; iioTrepfl conj. Sch.; 

 ?Tt Se Zairep tj KVTjffis <pv\aKh UAld.H. ; (pvWiidi mBas. etc. 



^ Tf) 5' 077 ((ttI conj. W. (c/. the description of oij, 3. 12. 8) ; 

 T^ 8' iSidr-nrt Aid. 



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