Fée remarks, that the cultivators of the modern times are more of the opinion of the poet than the naturalist.
[2822] Because rains would cause the young fruit to fall off. He here attacks the first portion of the precepts of Virgil; but only, it appears, in reference to the vine.
[2823] “Lactescentibus.” Fée remarks on the appropriateness of this expression, as the act of germination, he says, in the cereals and all the seeds in which the perisperm is feculent, changes the fecula into an emulsive liquid, in which state the seed may be said, with Pliny, to be “lactescent.”
[2824] Which appears to have been extensively done with the young garden trees.
[2825] Georg. ii. 398.
[2826] Taken altogether, a southern aspect is preferable to all others.
[2827] See B. ii. c. 46.
[2829] He seems to lose sight of the fact that they bud before those that look to the north.