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88. Trees planted by Agamemnon the first year of the Trojan war : 
other trees which date from the time that the place was called 
Ilium, anterior to the Trojaii war 431 
89. Trees planted at Argos by Hercules: others planted by Apollo. 
A tree more ancient than Athens itself ib. 
90. Trees which are the most short-lived 432 
91. Trees which have been rendered famous by remarkable events . . ib. 
92. Plants which have no peculiar spot for their growth : others that 
grow upon trees, and will not grow in the ground. Nine va- 
rieties of them : cadytas, polypodion, phaulias, hippophseston 433 
93. Three varieties of mistletoe. The nature of mistletoe and similar 
plants 434 
94. The method of making birdlime 435 
95. Historical facts connected with the mistletoe 435 
BOOK XVII. 
THE NATUEAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES. 
1. Trees whi-ch have been sold at enormous prices 438 
2. The influence of weather upon trees : what is the proper situation 
for the vine 441 
3. "What soils are to be considered the best 446 
4. The eight kinds of earth boasted of by the Gauls and Greeks , . 452 
5. The employment of ashes 455 
6. Manure 456 
7. Crops which tend to improve the land : crops which exhaust it . . 459 
8. The proper mode of using manure ib. 
9. The modes in which trees bear . 460 
10. Plants which are propagated by seed . . ib. 
11. Trees which never degenerate 461 
12. Propagation by suckers 463 
13. Propagation by slips and cuttings 464 
14. Seed-plots .. ib. 
15. The mode of propagating the elm 467 
16. The holes for transplanting 468 
17. The intervals to be left between trees . . . . 472 
18. The nature of the shadow thrown by trees 473 
19. The droppings of water from the leaves 474 
20. Trees which grow but slowly : those which grow with rapidity . . 475 
21. Trees propagated from layers ib. 
22. Grafting : the first discovery of it 477 
23. Inoculation or budding . . . . ib, 
24. The various kinds of grafting ib. 
25. Grafting the vine 482 
26. Grafting by scutcheons 483 
27. Plants which grow from a branch 485 
28. Trees which grow from cuttings : the mode of planting them . . 486 
29. The cultivation of the olive ib. 
