Chap. 15.] PEUITS EECENTLT INTBODUCED. 
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CHAP. 14. (14.) THIETY DIEEEKENT KINDS OE JPOMES. AT WHAT 
PESIOD FOEEIGN EETJITS WEEE EIEST INTEODUCED INTO ITALY;, 
AND WHENCE. 
There are numerous varieties of pomes. Of the citron^^ we 
have already made mention when describing its tree; the 
Greeks gave it the name of Medica,"^^ from its native coun- 
try. The jujube^^-tree and the tuber^^ are equally exotics; 
indeed, they have, both of them, been introduced only of late 
years into Italy ; the latter from Africa, the former from Syria. 
Sextus Papinius, whom we have seen consul,^^ introduced them 
both in the latter years of the reign of Augustus, produced 
from slips which he had grown within his camp. The fruit 
of the jujube more nearly resembles a berry than an apple : 
the tree sets off a terrace^ remarkably well, and it is not un- 
common to see whole woods of it climbing up to the very roofs 
of the houses. 
Of the tuber there are two varieties ; the white, and the one 
called " syricum,''^^ from its colour. Those fruits, too, may 
be almost pronounced exotic which grow nowhere in Italy but 
in the territory of Yerona, and are known as the wool-fruit.^^ 
They are covered with a woolly down ; this is found, it is true, 
to a very considerable extent, on both the strutheum variety of 
quince and the peach, but still it has given its name to this 
particular fruit, which is recommended to us by no other 
remarkable quality. 
OHAP. 15. THE EEtriTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOST EECENTLY 
INTEODIJCED. 
"Why should I hesitate to make some mention, too, of other 
60 See B. xii. c. 7. 6i Of Media. 
62 Its fruit will ripen in France, as far north as Tonrs. It is the Zizy- 
phus vulgaris of Lamarck. It resembles a small plum, and is sometimes used 
as a sweetmeat. The confection sold as jujube paste is not the dried jelly 
of this fruit, but merely gum arable and sugar, coloured. 
63 A variety of the jujube. Fee is inclined to think. A nut-peach has 
also been suggested. 
64 A.Tj.c. 779. 65 Or perhaps embankment : " agger." 
66 A reddish colour. For the composition of this colour, see B. 
zxxv. c. 24. 
67 "Lanata;" perhaps rather the "downy" fruit; a variety of quince, 
Fee thinks. Pliny probably had never seen this fruit, in his opinion, 
and only speaks after Virgil, Eel. ii. 1. 51. Ipse ego cana legam tenera 
lanugine mala." 
