[2954] See B. xv. c. [14]. Probably a variety of the jujube; but if so, it could hardly be grafted on trees of so different a nature as those here mentioned.
[2955] This tree has not been identified. Dalechamps thinks that it is a species of gooseberry, probably the same as the Ribes grossularia of Linnæus. It has been also suggested that it may be the Spina cervina of the Italians, the Rhamnus catharticus of Linnæus, the purgative buckthorn.
[2956] Fée doubts if the plum can be grafted on the thorn.
[2957] First of March.
[2958] The thickness of the thumb. See the last [Chapter].
[2959] He alludes to the Atinian elm, of which he has already said the same in B. xvi. c. [29].
[2960] From being about nine feet in circumference.
[2961] A “little altar.”
[2962] 13th of February.
[2963] I. e. each at an angle with the other, in this form:—