CHAP. 52.—TREES WHICH BEAR VARIOUS PRODUCTS. CRATÆGUM.
Many trees bear more than one production, a fact which we have already mentioned[2530] 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,[2531] 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[2532] 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;[2533] while on the north side it produces mistletoe, and on the south hyphear; two products of which I shall shortly have to speak more[2534] at length. Sometimes, indeed, this tree has all four of these products growing upon it at the same moment.