ENQLIRY INTO PLANTS IV. xiv. 12-14 



time of budding, but in the olive, because it is 

 evergreen, they do not appear till later ; those trees 

 therefore which have shed their leaves come to life 

 again, but those that have not done so are completely 

 destroyed. In some places trees have been known, 

 after being thus scorched and after their leaves have 

 withered, to shoot again without shedding their 

 leaves, and the leaves have come to life again. 

 Indeed in some places, as at Philippi, this happens 

 several times. 



^ Trees which have been frost-bitten,^ when they 

 are not completely destroyed, soon shoot again, so 

 that the vine immediately bears fruit, for instance 

 in Thessaly. In Pontus near Panticapaeum the 

 frost-bite occurs in two ways, either just from cold, 

 if the season is wintry, or from long^ spells of 

 frost ; in either case this generally occurs in the ■* 

 forty days after the winter solstice. The frosts 

 occur in fine weather, but the cold spells, which 

 cause the frost-bite, chiefly when in fine weather the 

 ' flakes ' ^ fall ; these are like filings, but broader, 

 and can be seen as they fall, but when they have 

 fallen, they disappear — though in Thrace they freeze 

 solid. 



Let this suffice for consideration of the diseases, 

 their number and nature, including the fatal effects 

 of excessive cold and heat or of cold or hot winds. 

 And it may well be that cei-tain of these also affect 

 wild trees, producing entire destruction of the tree 

 md still more that of the fruit. Indeed we see this 

 actually happen ; for wild trees also often fail to 



* x€^2 conj. Sch., c/. C.P. 5. 12. 4 ; /xeret UMVAld. 

 ° XcTiSfi conj. ScaL from 6 (sqvammvlae) ; (^ewlSfs Aid. c/. 

 3dt. 4. 31. 



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