28 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



fruit of the Palm, in which sense Galen also em- 

 ploys it, applying however the term adjectively a 

 for the resin which flows from the Fir, and sub- 

 stantively b for a plant of quite a different descrip- 

 tion from the eXdrrj, probably the Antirrhinum oron- 

 fium of Linna?us. 



Theophrastus points out a difference between this 

 and other trees, in respect to the circumstance that 

 it is destroyed, by having its top cut off, but not by 

 the removal of the entire tree, trunk, branches, and 

 all, so as only to leave the root and the stump at 

 bottom standing. 



In the former case, he says, the tree speedily dies, 

 whilst in the latter it will put forth again fresh 

 shoots. 



With regard to the degree of danger incurred in 

 lopping Firs modern writers are divided, all however 

 agreeing to regard it as a prejudicial practice . 



Of the tendency of the tree in some rare cases 

 to put forth fresh branches when cut nearly down 

 to the ground, an instance is given with respect to 

 a forest situated in the Pyrenees, in the work of 

 a Mons. Leroy, Paris, 1777. 



It seems that in this case the forest was wholly 

 made up of shoots that had pushed forth from 

 the stumps, after the trees had been felled nearly 

 to the ground, no less than twelve branches being 

 sometimes known to have sprung from the same 

 trunk. 



* Lib. i. c. 92. b Lib. iv. c. 2. 



' See Selby on Forest Trees. 



