Many trees bear more than one production, a fact which we have already mentioned2530 when speaking of the glandiferous trees. In the number of these there is the laurel, which bears its own peculiar kind of grape, and more particularly the barren laurel,2531 which bears nothing else; for which reason it is looked upon by some persons as the male tree. The filbert, too, bears catkins, which are hard and compact, but of no use2532 whatever.

(30.) But it is the box-tree that supplies us with the greatest number of products, not only its seed, but a berry also, known by the name of cratægum;2533 while on the north side it produces mistletoe, and on the south hyphear; two products of which I shall shortly have to speak more2534 at length. Sometimes, indeed, this tree has all four of these products growing upon it at the same moment.