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DIFEEEENT rLAYOUES OE JUICES. 
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the produce of a graft ^'^ upon the laurel. The Macedonian 
cherry grows on a tree that is very small, and rarely exceeds 
three cubits in height ; while the chameecerasus^^ is still smaller, 
being but a mere shrub. The cherry is one of the first trees 
to recompense the cultivator with its yearly growth ; it loves 
cold localities and a site exposed to the north. The fruit 
are sometimes dried in the sun, and preserved, like olives, in 
casks. 
CHAP. 31. (26.) THE CORIS'EL. THE LENTISK. 
The same degree of care is expended also on the cultivation 
of the corneP^ and the lentisk that it may not be thought, 
forsooth, that there is anything that was not made for the 
craving appetite of man ! Various flavours are blended to- 
gether, and one is compelled to please our palates by the aid 
of another — hence it is that the produce of different lands 
and various climates are so often mingled with one another. 
Eor one kind of food it is India that we summon to our 
aid, and then for another w^e lay Egypt under contribution, 
or else Crete, or Cyrene, every country, in fact : no, nor does 
man stick at poisons^° even, if he can only gratify his longing 
to devour everything : a thing that will be still more evident 
when we come to treat of the nature of herbs. 
CHAP. 32. (27.) THIETEEN DIFEEEENT FLAVOUES OF JUICES. 
While upon this subject, it may be as well to state that 
there are no less than thirteen different flavours^^ belonging 
8^ Such a graft is impossible ; the laurel-cherry must have had some 
other origin. 
Fee suggests that this may be the early dwarf cherry. 
86 Or "ground-cherry;" a dwarf variety, if, indeed, it was a eherry-tree 
at all, of which Fee expresses some doubt. 
This explains, Fee says, why it will not grow in Egypt. 
8^ The Cornus mas of Linnaeus. The fruit of the cornel has a tart 
flavour, but is not eaten in modern Europe, except by school-boys. 
^9 That produces mastich. See B. xii. c. 36. 
He alludes more especially, perhaps, to the use of cicuta or hemlock 
by drunkards, who looked upon it as an antidote to the effects of wine. 
See B. xiv. c. 7. 
91 Fee remarks, that in this enumeration there is no method. Linnaeus 
enumerates eleven principal flavours in the vegetable kingdom — dry or 
insipid, aqueous, viscous, salt, acrid, styptic, sweet, fat, bitter, acid, and 
nauseous ; these terms, however seem, some of them, to be very indefinite. 
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