Chap. 48 The Mode in Which Trees Bear
Some among the fruit-trees2511 bear on both the sides of the branches and the summit, the pear, for instance, the fig-tree, and the myrtle. In other respects the trees are pretty nearly of a similar nature to the cereals, for in them we find the ear growing from the summit, while in the leguminous varieties the pod grows from the sides. The palm, as we have already2512 stated, is the only one that has fruit hanging down in bunches enclosed in capsules.