ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, V. vii. 5-7 



building and also for other kinds of work, but silver- 

 fir is of use for more purposes than fir. Aleppo pine 

 is used for both kinds of building, but especially for 

 ship-building, yet it soon rots. Oak is used for 

 house-building, for ship-building, and also for under- 

 ground work ; lime for the deck-planks of long ships, 

 for boxes, and for the manufacture of measures ; its 

 bark is also useful for ropes and writing-cases, ^ for 

 these are sometimes made of it. 



Maple and zygia are used for making beds 

 and the yokes of beasts of burden : yew for the 

 ornamental work attached - to chests and footstools 

 and the like : kermes-oak ^ for the axles of wheel- 

 barrows ^ and the cross-bars of lyres and psalteries : 

 beech for making waggons and cheap carts : elm 

 for making doors and weasel-traps, and to some 

 extent it is also used for waggon work ; pedos ^ for 

 waggon-axles and the stocks of ploughs : andrachne 

 is used for women for parts of the loom : Phoenician 

 cedar for carpenters' work ^ and for work which is 

 either to be exposed to the air or buried underground, 

 because it does not decay. Similarly the sweet 

 chestnut is used, and it is even less likely to decay 

 if it is used for underground work. Box is used for 

 some purposes ; however that which grows on 

 Mount Olympus ' is useless, because only short pieces 

 can be obtained and the wood ^ is full of knots. 

 Terebinth is not used,^ except the fruit and the resin. 



<»rts with solid wheels.' rals conj. Sch.; re koX UMV; t6 koI 

 :iovo<TTp6<pov5 a/xa^as Aid. 



' irrjSos (with varying accent) MSS.: probably = ira5oj, 4. 1. 

 :5 ; irv^os Aid., but see §7. 



® TtKToviai can hardlj- be right. ' cf. .3. L"). 5. 



* c/. 1. S. 2, of box in general ; Plin. 16. 71. 



'* Inconsistent with 5. 3. 2. 



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