Further notes on the propagation of trees.
To return to the other trees:—in propagating them they set the cuttings upside down,[1] as with vine-shoots. Some however[2] say that that makes no difference, and least of all in propagating the vine; while others contend that the pomegranate thus propagated has a bushier growth[3] and shades the fruit better, and also that it is then[4] less apt to shed the flower. This also occurs, they say, with the fig; when it is set upside down, it does not shed its fruit, and it makes a more accessible[5] tree and it does not shed its fruit, even if one breaks off the top[6] as it begins to grow.
Thus we have given a general sketch of what we find about methods of propagation, and of the ways in which these trees are reproduced.
- ↑ ἀνάπαλιν conj. Sch.; τἀνάπαλιν Ald. cf. C.P. 2. 9. 4; Geop. 10. 45; Plin. 17. 84.
- ↑ οὖν ins. H.
- ↑ δασύνεσθαι: see LS. reff. s.v. δασύς.
- ↑ cf. C.P. 2. 9. 3.
- ↑ εὐβατωτέραν (i.e. 'more manageable'). The reference is to a method of keeping the tree dwarf (Bod.). Plin. l.c. has scansilem (so also G), which seems to be a rendering of εὐβατ. εὐβατοτέραν U.
- ↑ τὸ ἄκρον conj. R. Const. after G; τὸν καρπὸν UMVP2Ald.