[601] Geopon. 925, where repeated watering is directed; it is said you will then have tenderer fruit, and in more abundance.
[602] Virgil. Geor. i. 150. Plin. xviii. cap. 17.
[603] Palladius, iv. 9, p. 934, and lib. xi. Octob. p. 987. In the first-mentioned place he gives the same direction for preventing prickles, as that quoted respecting the cinara.
[604] Pliny, lib. xx. says, “The wind easily carries away the withered flowers on account of their woolly nature.”
[605] Κύναρος ἄκανθα πάντα πληθύει γύην.—Sophocles, in Phœnice.
... Segnisque horreret in arvis
Carduus...—Virgil. Georg. i. 50.
[606] Athen. Deipnos. at the end of the second book, p. 70. Salmasius, in his Remarks on Solinus, p. 159, is of opinion that Athenæus wrote κάρδον, not κάρδυον; and the Latins not carduus, but cardus.
[607] Lib. iii. cap. 19.
[608] Lib. xix. cap. 8.
[609] Arctium Lappa, an indigenous weed, difficult to be rooted out. Elsholz, in his Gartenbau, speaking of the Spanish cardoons, says, “The strong stem of the large burr, Arctium Lappa, may be dressed in the same manner, and is not much different in taste.” See also Thomas Moufet’s Health’s Improvement. Lond. 1746, 8vo, p. 217.