ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IV. xvi. 5-6 



thing. But halimon is more potent even than this, 

 for it destroys tree-medick. 



Again some things, though they do not cause 

 death, enfeeble the tree as to the production of 

 flavours and scents ; thus cabbage and sweet bay have 

 this effect on the vine. For they say that the vine 

 scents the cabbage and is infected ^ by it. Wherefore 

 the vine-shoot,- whenever it comes near this plant, 

 turns back and looks away,^ as though the smell 

 were hostile to it. Indeed Androkydes * used this 

 fact as an example to demonstrate the use of cabbage 

 against wine, to expel the fumes of drunkenness ; 

 for,^ said he, even when it is alive, the vine avoids the 

 smell. It is now clear from what has been said 



how the death of a tree may be caused, how many 

 are the causes of death, and in what several ways they 

 operate. 



' a.<popa.v conj. Sch. ; ev<popf7v U ; afopttv Aid. ; averti G ; 

 recedere Plin. I.e.; eKX<«'f>e»»' conj. W. 



* A medical man who preached temperance to Alexander ; 

 c/. Plin. 14. 08 ; 17. 240. 



* yap Srj Kol conj. Dalec. from G ; yap 5*1 koi Aid. 



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