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3. Olive oil : the countries ia wtiich it is produced, and its various 
qualities 279 
4. Fifteen varieties of the olive 281 
5. The nature of olive oil 284 
6. The culture of the olive : its mode of preservation. The method 
of making olive oil 285 
7. Forty-eight varieties of artificial oils. The cicus-tree or croton, 
or sili, or sesamum 286 
8. Amurca 291 
9. The various kinds of fruit-trees and their natures. Four varieties 
of pine-nuts 292 
10. The quince. Four kinds of cydonia, and four varieties of the 
struthea ib. 
11. Six varieties of the peach 293 
12. Twelve kinds of plums . . 294 
13. The peach . . 296 
14. Thirty difi'erent kinds of pomes. At what period foreign fruits 
were first introduced into Italy, and whence 297 
15. The fruits that have been most recently introduced ib. 
16. Forty-one varieties of the pear 300 
17. Various methods of grafting trees. Expiations for lightning . . 302 
18. The mode of keeping various fruits and grapes 303 
19. Twenty-nine varieties of the fig 307 
20. Historical anecdotes connected with the fig 309 
21. Caprification 311 
22. Three varieties of the medlar 314 
23. Four varieties of the sorb ib. 
24. Nine varieties of the nut 315 
25. Eighteen varieties of the chesnut 318 
26. The carob 319 
27. The fleshy fruits. The mulberry ib. 
28. The fruit of the arbutus 320 
29. The relative natures of berry fruits 321 
30. Nine varieties of the cherry 322 
31. The cornel. The lentisk 323 
32. Thirteen difi'erent fiavours of juices ib. 
33. The colour and smell of juices ^ .. 325 
34. The various natures of fruit 326 
35. The myrtle 328 
36. Historical anecdotes relative to the myrtle 328 
37. Eleven varieties of the myrtle 330 
38. The myrtle used at Eome*^ in ovations .331 
39. The laurel ; thirteen varieties of it 332 
40. Historical anecdotes connected with the laurel 334 
BOOK XVI. 
THE NATURAL HISTOHY OF THE FOREST TREES. 
1. Countries that have no trees. .. 339 
2. Wonders connected with trees in the nothern regions . . . . 340 
