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  • From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Doc's Prose
  • Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:18:41 -0400


Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was a great poet and the leading
naturalist of his
time.
Below translation by John Dryden (1631-1700)

"But various are the ways to change the state
Of plants, to bud, to graff, to inoculate.
For, where the tender rinds of trees disclose
Their shooting germs, a swelling knot there grows:
Just in that space a narrow slit we make,
Then other buds from bearing tress we take;
Inserted thus, the wounded rind we close,
In whose moist womb the admitted infant grows.
But when the smoother bole from knots is free;
We make a deep incision in the tree,
And in the solid wood the slip inclose;
The battening bastard shoots again and grows;
And in short space the laden boughs arise;
With happy fruit advancing to the skies.
The mother plant admires the leaves unknown
Of alien trees, and apples not her own."

longdistshtr wrote:

> Frost poems are alright but I like limericks like this one I wrote:
>
> I'll tell you what is in store,
> A tired back and your hands will be sore,
> But you'll gaze at the sun,
> And thank the Great One,
> For giving you a chance to do more.
>
> Doc Lisenby
> Zone 7/8
>
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--
Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b






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