that holly loses its fruit owing to the winter. Lime[1] and box are very late in fruiting, (lime has a fruit which no animal can eat, and so have cornel and box. Ivy Phoenician cedar fir and andrachne are late fruiting[2]) though, according to the Arcadians, still later than these and almost latest of all are tetragonia[3] odorous cedar and yew. Such then are the differences as to the time of shedding and ripening their fruit between wild[4] as compared with cultivated trees, and likewise as compared with one another.
Of the seasons of budding.
V. [5]Now most trees, when they have once begun to bud, make their budding and their growth continuously, but with fir silver-fir and oak there are intervals. They make three fresh starts in growth and produce three separate sets of buds; wherefore also they lose their bark thrice[6] a year. For every tree loses its bark when it is budding. This first happens in mid-spring[7] at the very beginning of the month Thargelion,[8] on Mount Ida within about fifteen days of that time; later, after an interval of about thirty days or rather more, the tree[9] puts on fresh buds which start from the head of the knobby growth[10] which formed at the first budding-time; and it makes its budding partly on the top of this,[11] partly all round it laterally,[12] using the knob formed at the
- ↑ φίλυρα Ald.; φιλυρέα conj. Sch.
- ↑ τὸν δὲ …. ἀνδράχλη. Apparently a gloss, W.
- ↑ τετραγωνία conj. Sch. (τετρα- omitted after -τερα): cf. §2; γωνία <v; γωνίεια U.
- ↑ τῶν ἀγρίων after πεπάνσεις conj. Sch.; after ἥμερα Ald.
- ↑ Plin. 16. 100.
- ↑ τρίσλοποι conj. Sch.; τρίσλοιποι UM2V; τρίσλεποι M1Ald. cf. 4.15.3; 5.1.1.
- ↑ ἕαρος conj. R. Const.; ἀέρος VAld. cf. Plin. l.c.
- ↑ About May.
- ↑ What follows evidently applies only to the oak.
- ↑ κορυνησέως conj. Sch.; κορύνης ἕως UMV; κορυφῆς ἕως Ald.
- ↑ cf. 3.6.2.
- ↑ τὰ add. Sch.
