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time, though known, was not an established branch of painting, as it had 

 not even acquired a name; for Pliny, who on other occasions is not sparing 

 in his use of technical terms, is obliged to call it by a periphrasis, " an 

 agreeable sort of painting or subject" (amaenissima pictura). P. 35. 



Note IV. Page 57. 



" In arbustum Ulmos quinquennes sub Urbe transferunt, aut, ut qui- 

 busdam placet, quae vicenum pedum esse coeperunt. Suleo, qui Nov- 

 enarius dicitur, altitudine pedum trium, pari latitudine, et eo ampliiis, 

 circa positas, pedes terni undique 6 solido adaggorantur. Arulas id 

 vocant in CampaniA. * * Opulis eadem ratio semino, qua Ulmos 

 serendi ; transferendi quoque 6 seminariis, eadem et silvis." — Hist. 

 Nat. L. XVII. II. Sec also Columella, L. V. 5. 6.—Cato, <SjC. 



Note V. Page 58. 



" Haec si tibi nimii\m tristia videbuntur, vjllae imputabis ; in quik 

 didici ab ^gialo, diligentissimo patrefamilise (is enim nunc hujus agri 

 possessor est), quamvis vetus arbustum posse transfcrri. Hoc nobis 

 senibus disccre necessarium est, quorum nemo non olivetum alteri 

 ponit. Quod vidi, hoc dico; illud arboretum trinum aut quadrinuun 

 fastidienti fructus autimmo deponere. Te quoque proteget ilia, quae 

 Tarda venit, seris factura nepotibus umbram." 



Sen. Epist. LXXXVI. p. 553. Edit. Lipsii. 



Note VI. Page 58. 



This skilful husbandman, says the poet, well knew how to order his 



slow-growing elms in even rows ; to transplant the hardy pear tree, and 



the grafted thomstock, already yielding fruit ; together with the pla- 



tanus of such a size, that the votaries of Bacchus might enjoy its 



shade : 



Illc eliam scras in veisum distulil Ulmos, 

 Eduiamquo Piium, ctSpinos jam prima fcrentcs, 

 Jaitique minislrantcin Plalanum potaiitibus umbras. 



Virg. Gcorg. Lib. IV. 114. 



This version of the passage, I conceive, we are warranted in believing 

 to be correct, although the word distultt is used, and not transtulii 

 (from the peculiar epithets, which Virgil has bestowed upon the trees), 

 distinctly showing them not to have been diminutive plants, but trees 

 transferred to the spot when of some magnitude. 



