[3062] For making baskets and bindings.
[3063] The Populus canescens of Willdenow.
[3064] The Arundo donax of Linnæus. This account is mostly from Columella, B. iv. c. 32.
[3066] First of March.
[3067] This method is condemned by Columella, De Arbor. 29, as the produce is poor, meagre, and weak. It is but little practised at the present day.
[3068] A mere superstition, of course.
[3069] “Pedamenta,” uprights, stays, stakes, or props.
[3070] This is not the fact, for the chesnut both grows and buds very slowly.