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THE FEITITS. 
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its own accord. The Salarian'*^ chesnut has a smooth outer 
shell, while that of Tarentum is not so easily handled^^ The 
Corellian is more highly esteemed, as is the Etereian, which is 
an offshoot from it produced by a method upon which we shall 
have to enlarge when we come to speak of grafting/^ This 
last has a red skin,^^ which causes it to be preferred to the 
three-cornered chesnut and our black common sorts, which 
are known as coctivae."^^ Tarentum and JSTeapolis in Cam- 
pania are the most esteemed localities for the chesnut : other 
kinds, again, are grown to feed pigs upon,^^ the skin of which 
is rough and folded inwards, so as to penetrate to the heart of 
the kernel. 
CHAP. 26. (24.) THE CAKOB. 
The carob,^' a fruit of remarkable sweetness, does not ap- 
pear to be so very dissimilar to the chesnut, except that the 
skin^^ is eaten as well as the inside. It is just the length of 
a finger, and about the thickness of the thumb, being some- 
times of a curved shape, like a sickle. The acorn cannot be 
reckoned in the number of the fruits ; we shall, therefore, 
speak of it along with the trees of that class. ^'^ 
CHAP. 27. THE FLESHY FETJITS. THE MULBEREY. 
The other fruits belong to the fleshy kind, and differ both 
in the shape and the flesh. The flesh of the various ber- 
ries, of the mulberry, and of the arbute, are quite dif- 
ferent from one another — and then what a diflerence, too, 
between the grape, which is only skin and juice,^'^ the myxa 
plum, and the flesh of some berries, such as the olive, for 
The Ganebelone chesnut of Perigneux, Fee says, answers to this 
description. 
On account of the prickles on the outer shell. B. xvii. c. 26. 
50 Fee says that the royal white chesnut of the vicinity of Perigueux 
answers to this. 5i u Boiling'* chesnuts. 
5- He alludes to wild or horse chesnuts, probably. 
See B. xiii. c. 16. 
This skin is not eatable. It is fibrous and astringent. 
^5 In B. xvi. c. 6. 
" Acinis." The grape, ivy-berry, elder- berry, and others. 
" Inter cutem succumque." 
Baccis. Some confusion is created by the non-existence of English 
