Remarks ou the most Importaut Plant Societies of the Island. 



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get on veiy well ; be.side.'< there was a iii'cat number of young trees, growing as ground shoot.s. The biggest 

 trees were about 10 ni. high, and the thickest one had a girth of I.21 m. Another tree somewhat bigger 

 still had just been cut down, as the bark had been cut off in such a rough way that the tree was dying; 

 this tree had a girth of 1.35 m. In spite of the rough treatment the trees undergo, there is at present 

 scarcely any great risk of their being exterminated; new trunks easily grow up, the foliage of which is 

 fi'esh and rich. In several of the trees I saw female flowers on the 19th of May 1905. When I visited 

 the convent garden of Antiphoniti on the 7th oi' .lune 19(i.5, there wore as in Un«er's days two old 



Fig. 85. ( 'ollectini;- of Liquidambar-lnfi-use at Hag'- Neophytos. 



trees of Liqiiidnniliar:^) both of them had several trunks, some of which had fallen and were totally or 

 paitially dry (because the bark had been cut away almost all round the trunks). The two thickest ones 

 of the living trunks had a girth of 1.85 and 1.74 m. Moreover there were some younger trees formed 

 probably through ground shoots from the old ones, and an enormous stool which was nearly entirely rotten. 

 When PococKE visited the place in 1738, there grew 7 trees near Antiphoniti. (Cp. the statements given 

 p. 96 — 99 of the form of Liquidambar growing in Cyprus). — Cherries (Prumts Cerasus) thrive very 

 well in the gardens of several villages in the valley of Marathassa. — Apricots (P. armeniaca) are cul- 

 tivated in several places to a great extent and sometimes in excellent varieties. The biggest plantations 

 of this tree I have seen near the village Hag. Amvrosios in the district of Kyi'enia. — Peaches (Amyg- 



') It is uucorrectl}' stateil in Hutchinson aud Cobham, Handbook of Cyprus (1907) as being only one tree (1. 



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