Latin Texts & Translations

The only ones among all the trees that bear nothing whatever, not so much as any seed even, are the tamarisk, ^[Note] which is used only for making brooms, the poplar, ^[Note] the alder, the Atinian elm, ^[Note] and the alaternus, ^[Note] which has a leaf between that of the holm-oak and the olive. Those trees are regarded as sinister, ^[Note] and are considered inauspicious, which are never propagated from seed, and bear no fruit. Cremutius informs us, that this tree, being the one upon which Phyllis ^[Note] hanged

herself, is never green. Those trees which produce a gum open of themselves after germination: the gum never thickens until after the fruit has been removed.