[2992] This is quite a fallacy. Even in the much more probable cases of the upas and mangineel, it is not the fact.
[2993] Theophrastus, De Causis, B. iii. c. 8, says, that trees that grow on declivities have shorter branches than those of the same kind growing on plains.
[2994] De Re Rust. c. 16.
[2995] This assertion is doubtful; at the present day, in Andalusia, the palm, the poplar, and many other trees are much larger than the olive.
[2996] “Thousand pounders.” This, as Fée remarks, is clearly an exaggeration.
[2997] Virgil, Georg. ii. 57, makes the same remark.
[2998] This shrub has not been identified.
[3000] De Re Rust. c. 51.
[3001] The French call cultivation by layers “marcotte,” as applied to trees in general; and “provignage,” as applicable to the vine. The two methods described by Pliny are still extensively practised.