Latin Texts & Translations

Many trees bears more than one production, a fact which we have already mentioned ^[Note] when speaking of the glandiferous trees. In the number of these there is the laurel, which bears its own peculiar kind of grape, and more particularly the barren laurel, ^[Note] which bears nothing else; for which reason it is looked upon by some persons as the male tree. The filbert, too, bears catkins, which are hard and compact, but of no use ^[Note] whatever.

(30.) But it is the box-tree that supplies us with the greatest number of products, not only its seed, but a berry also, known by the name of cratægum; ^[Note] while on the north side

it produces mistletoe, and on the south hyphear; two products of which I shall shortly have to speak more ^[Note] at length. Sometimes, indeed, this tree has all four of these products growing upon it at the same moment.