[2944] As the young cypress is very delicate, in the northern climates, Fée says, this mode of protecting it in the nursery might prove advantageous.
[2945] There is some exaggeration in this account of the extreme smallness of the seed of the cypress.
[2946] Wine and oil-presses, for instance.
[2947] B. xix. c. 48, and B. xx. c. 11. As Fée remarks, this is a fabulous assertion, which may still be based upon truth; as in gum-resin, for instance, we find occasionally the seeds of the parent tree accidentally enclosed in the tear-like drops.
[2949] In c. [11] of this Book.
[2950] “Volgiolis.” This word is found nowhere else, and the reading is doubtful.
[2951] This is, at least, an exaggeration.
[2952] See B. xvi. c. [31], and c. [60].
[2953] It is propagated at the present day both from seed and suckers, but mostly from the latter, as the seed does not germinate for two years.