[2564] See B. xii. c. [30].

[2565] Under the name of Cedrus, no doubt, several of the junipers have been included. See B. xiii. c. [11].

[2566] Fée is inclined to doubt this statement. The myrtle has been known to stand the winters of Lower Brittany.

[2567] Owing, no doubt, as Fée says, solely to bad methods of cultivation. The same, too, with the grafted peach and the Greek nut or almond.

[2568] The Cupressus sempervirens of Linnæus, the Cupressus fastigiata of Decandolle.

[2569] De Re Rust. cc. 48, 151.

[2570] “Morosa;” meaning that it reaches maturity but very slowly.

[2571] Tristis tentantum sensu torquebit amaror.—Virg. Georg. ii. 247.

[2572] This statement is exaggerated.

[2573] It is still to be seen very frequently in the cemeteries of Greece and Constantinople.