and also from pieces of the stock. It is necessary however with this, as with the olive, to cut up the wood into pieces not less than a span long and not to strip off the bark.
Trees then grow and come into being in the above-mentioned ways; for as to methods of grafting[1] and inoculation, these are, as it were, combinations of different kinds of trees; or at all events these are methods of growth of a quite different class and must be treated of at a later stage.
II. Of under-shrubs and herbaceous plants the greater part grow from seed or a root, and some in both ways; some of them also grow from cuttings, as has been said,[2] while roses and lilies grow from pieces of the stems, as also does dog's-tooth grass. Lilies and roses also grow when the whole stem is set. Most peculiar is the method of growth from an exudation[3]; for it appears that the lily grows in this way too, when the exudation that has been produced has dried up. They say the same of[4] alexanders, for this too produces an exudation. There is a certain[5] reed also which grows if one cuts it in lengths from joint to joint and sets them[6] sideways, burying it in dung and soil. Again they say that plants which have a bulbous root are peculiar in their way of growing[7] from the root.
The capacity for growth being shewn in so many ways, most trees, as was said before,[8] originate in several ways; but some come[9] only from seed, as silver-
- ↑ ἐμφυτεῖαι conj. R. Const; ἐμφυλέαι (with erasures) U; ἐμφυλείαι V; ἐμφυλεῖαι Ald.
- ↑ 2. 1. 3; cf. C.P. 1. 4. 4. and 6.
- ↑ i.e. bulbil. cf. 6. 6. 8; 9. 1. 4; C.P. 1. 4. 6; Plin. 21. 24.
- ↑ ἐπὶ conj. W.; ἀπὸ P2Ald.
- ↑ δέ τις καὶ Ald,; τις om. W. after Sch.
- ↑ cf. 1. 4. 4; Plin. 17. 145 ; Col. 4. 32. 2; τιθῇ conj. Sch.; ἢ Ald.; ? θῇ.
- ↑ i.e. by offset bulbs. Text probably defective; cf. C.P. 1. 4. 1. τῷ U; τὸ UMV.
- ↑ 2. 1. 1.
- ↑ φύεται I conj.; φησίν ἐστιν or φασίν ἐστιν ΜSS.; ὡς φασίν ἐστιν Αld.; παραγίνεται conj. W.
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