[3042] De Re Rust. 44. The rules here given are still very generally observed.
[3044] See c. [2] of this Book, and B. xviii. c. 69.
[3045] The olive is an extremely long-lived tree; it has been known to live as long as nine or ten centuries. A fragment of the bark, with a little wood attached, if put in the ground, will throw out roots and spring up. Hence it is not to be wondered at, that the ancients looked upon it as immortal.
[3046] B. xviii. c. 74.
[3047] B. xviii. c. 74.
[3048] B. ii. c. 47, and B. xviii. c. 68.
[3049] There is a contradiction here; a few lines above, he says that they do plant their trees in Greece at this period. He may possibly mean “sow.”
[3050] See B. xvi. c. [41]. The rules here laid down by Pliny are, as Fée remarks, much too rigorous, and must be modified according to extraneous circumstances.
[3051] 13th of February.