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has been known to live in Lydia : but how are we to impart 
to these productions the requisite warmth of the sun, in order 
to make all the crude juices go off by evaporation, and ripen 
the resins that distil from them ? 
JJ^'early as great a marvel, too, is the fact that the nature of 
the tree may be modified by circumstances, and yet the tree 
itself be none the less vigorous in its growth. Nature ori- 
ginally gave the cedar to localities of burning heat, and yet 
we find it growing in the mountains of Lycia and Phrygia. 
She made the laurel, too, averse to cold, and yet there is no 
tree that grows in greater abundance on Mount Olympus. At 
the city of Panticapseum, in the vicinity of the Cimmerian Bos- 
porus, King Mithridates and the inhabitants of the place used 
every possible endeavour, with a view to certain religious 
ceremonies, to cultivate the myrtle^- and the laurel : they could 
not succeed, however, although trees abound there which re- 
quire a hot climate, such as the pomegranate and the fig, as 
well as apples and pears of the most approved quality. In the 
same country, too, the trees that belong to the colder climates, 
such as the pine, the fir, and the pitch- tree, refuse to grow. 
But why go search for instances in Pontus ? In the vicinity 
of Eome itself it is only with the greatest difficulty that the 
cherry and the chesnut will grow, and the peach-tree, too, at 
Tusculum : the Greek nut, too, is grown there from grafts 
only at a cost of considerable labour, while Tarracina abounds 
with whole woods of it. 
CHAP. 60. (33.) THE CYPRESS. 
The cypress is an exotic, and has been reckoned one of the 
trees that are naturalized with the greatest difficulty ; so much 
so, indeed, that Cato^^ has expatiated upon it at greater length 
and more frequently than any of the others. This tree is 
naturally of a stubborn disposition, bears a fruit that is utterly 
SI Under the name of Cedrus, no doubt, several of the junipers have 
been included. See B. xiii. c. 11. 
Fee is indined to doubt this statement. The myrtle has been known 
to stand the winters of Lower Brittany. 
^3 Owing, no doubt, as Fee says, solely to bad methods of cultivation. 
The same, too, with the grafted peach and the Greek nut or almond. 
The Cupressus sempervirens of Linngeus, the Cupressus fastigiata of 
DecandoUe. 85 j)q ^^st. cc. 48, 151. 
b6 a Morosa meaning that it reaches maturity but very slowly. 
