. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . of a spongysubstance, very light,of a brownish redcolour, covered witha resinous coat, andfurnished with a cir-cular row of tuber-cles, placed rou
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . of a spongysubstance, very light,of a brownish redcolour, covered witha resinous coat, andfurnished with a cir-cular row of tuber-cles, placed roundthe centre. Olivierdoes not, however,appear to have beenaware of the identityof these galls with thefar-famed apples ofthe Dead Sea, thenature of which hasso greatly perplexednaturalists,and whichare mentioned, bothby Tacitus and Jose-phus, as being beauti-ful to the eye, but crumbling at the touch to dust and bitter ashes. By somewriters, the existence of these vegetable productions has been entirely supposes them to be pomegranates left for two or three years uponthe tree; Hasselquist pronounced these Poma sodomitica, as they havebeen called, to be the fruit of the 5olanum Melongena (the egg plant,or madapple); Seetzen considered them to be the fruit of a species of cotton tree;Chateaubriand the fruit of a shrub; and Captains Mangles and Irby have nodoubt that they have discovered them in the oskar plant. Mr. Conder, how-. 1932 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. ever, (Mod. Trav.: Palestine.) who has collected the opinions of all these authors, doubts the correctness of all of them; observing, If it be anything more than a fable, it must have been a production peculiar to that part of Palestine, or it would not have excited such general attention. It is possible that what they (Tacitus and Josephus) describe may have originated, like the oak galls in this country, in the work of some insect. A. B. Lambert, Esq., having received some of these far-famed apple
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