Plinies NatUrall Hiftorie. 



^ alteration in her.She hath affigned the Cedar tree unto hote eountrics : and yet we fet it to grow 

 in the mountaines of Lycia and Phrygia both . Shee hath fo appointed and ordained, that cold 

 places (hould be hurtfull and contrarie to Bay-trecSjhowbeitjthere is not a tree profpereth bet- 

 tcrjnor growcth in morcplcntie upon the cold hill Olympus^than it. About thcilrcights of the 

 Cimmerian Bofphorusj and namely^inthe cittiePanticapseuniiboth king Ol^iihrUaies^md^l- 

 fo the inhabitants of thofe quarters^ufed all meanes poflible to have the Lawrell and the Myrtle 

 there to growjoncly to ferve their turnes when they (hould facrifice to the gods ; it would never 

 bcjdid they what they could : and yet even then,there were good ftore of trees there growing of 

 a warme temperature^ there were Pomgranates and Fig-treesplentie 5 and now adaies there bee 

 Apple-trees and Pyrries in thole partspf the beft and daintieft fort. Contrariu'ifej yee iliali noc 



B find in all that tra(5t any trees of a cold naturc,as Pines^Pitcb- trees,and Firres.But what need I to 

 goe as farreas to Pontus fortoaverrc and make good my word?Goe no farther than Rome, 

 hardly and with much adoe will any Cheftnut or Cherie- trees grow neare untoit, no more than 

 Peach- trees about the territorieofXhulculum.Andworkcynough there is to make Hazels and 

 Filbards to like there : turne but to Tarracina thereby^ yee fhall meet with whole woods full of 

 Hut-trees, 



ChAp, XXXIII. 



of the Cyprejfe tree, Thdtaftentimesfome new plants deegroxv out of the 

 ground^whkh were niverhnowne to be there beforetime, 



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THe Cyprcflc hath beene counted a meere ftranger in Italie, and moft unwilling there to 

 grow,as wee may fee in the workes of Cato^viho hath fpent more words, and made oftenc£ 

 mention of the Cyprefife alone^than of all other trees whatfoever.Much ado there is with 

 it beforeitcome up ; and as hard it is to grow, and when all is done, thefrutis good for nothing* 

 The Berries that it bcareth,bee wrinckled,and npthing lovely to the eie , the leaves wherewith 11 

 is eladjbitter in taft ; a ftrong and violent fmell it hath with it^ not fo much as the very (hade thcr- 

 of isdelcdabieand pleafant; and the wood but {inaIl&notfolide,butof an hollow {ubftancCj 

 infomuchjas a man may raunge it among the kinds of fhrubs.Confecrated is this tree to PintOj 

 and therefore men ufe to fet a bough thereof asafigne, before thofe houfes wherein a dead 

 D corpes lieth under bourd. As touching the female Cypreffejit is long ere fl:ie beareth.the Cy- 

 prelTe tree for all this,in the end growing up to a pyramidall form fharpe pointed,is not rejedrcd 

 but much fet by, if it were fornothingelfebuttoftand betweenc every row and ranke of Pine- 

 trees : hovijbeir, now adaies it is ordered with cutting and clipping for to grow thicke in borders 

 about garden quarters along the allies, alfo to climbe upon wallsin manner of feeling ; and be- 

 ing thus kept downe,it is by this meanes alvwaies fmalhnd tender. Moreover,thereot are dra wne 

 many vinets and borders about iiorie- workes in coloursrfor fo fine is the le3fe,fo fliort & greene 

 withalljthat it may be brought in a traile to wind aboutpidures either of hounds and hunter3,or 

 of (hips and failers5or any counterfets and images whatfoever,moft daintily. 



Two forts theire are of theCyprelTe tree. Firft,that which runneth up into a pyramidall 

 E point, winding upward as a round fpire, which alfo is called the iemale . As for the male, it 

 fendeth out braunches^andfpreadeth broad; it is lopped alfo, and fciveth in frames to beare up 

 Vincs*Both the one and the other is fuffered to grow for perches, railes, and plankesjto be made 

 of their boughs when they are cut. Once in thirteene ycares there is made a fall,and not one of 

 thofe but are told for a Romane denier apeece. A wood thereof planted in this manner,is of all 

 others mort gaincfull, and yeeldeth grcateft profite : infomuch, as in old time they were wont 

 commonly tofay^That one fall of fuch Cypreife poles would yeeld aman a portion fufficient to 

 give with his daughter in mariage. 



ThelflandCandieis thenaturall countrey of the Cyprc(retree,howfoeverC^^i> hath called 

 itaTarcntinc tree s haply, becaufc it came thither firft, IntheIflei^:naria,theCypreffe trees 

 F fpring againe after they bee cut downe to the roots. But in Candie,looke what ground foevet a 

 man doth breake up and plough, unlelfe hefow or fet it with fome other thing, Cypreffes will 

 come upj and prefently fhew above ground . In many places alfo of that Ifle, they fpring and 

 growof themfelvesj even in ground otherwife untilled; and principally in the mountaines of 

 Ida, and thofe vvhich they call the white Hils : upon the very crefis and tops whereof, which are 



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