Among these olive grounds in summer, the song of the tettix[1340] is commonly heard; for this musical insect loves the olive, which, like the sant of the Arabian desert, yields but a thin and warm shade.[1341] The tettix, in fact, though never found in an unwooded country, as in the plains about Cyrene, equally avoids the dense shade of the woods.[1342] Here likewise[1343] are found the blackbird, the roller, and three distinct species of butcher-bird—the small grey, the ash-coloured, and the redheaded. ----- Footnote 1340: Cf. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 582, seq. Footnote 1341: Οὐ γίνονται δὲ τέττιγες ὅπου μὴ δένδρα ἐστιν· διὸ καὶ ἐν Κυρήνη οὐ γίνονται ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ, περὶ δὲ τὴν πόλιν πολλοί, μόλιστα δ᾽ οὗ ἐλαῖαι· οὐ γὰρ γίνονται παλίν σκίοι. Aristot. Hist. Anim. v. 30. Cf. Phile, de Animal. Proprietat. c. 25. p. 81. Footnote 1342: In Spain, however, these insects exhibit a somewhat different taste, being there found amid the foliage of the most leafy trees. “Every oak in the cork-wood near Gibraltar was the abode if not of harmony, at least of noise, and the concert kept up amidst the foliage by the numerous grass or rather tree-hoppers was quite deafening.” Napier, Excursions on the shores of the Mediterranean, ii. p. 2. Footnote 1343: Sibth. in Walp. Mem. i. 75. ----- In an Attic orchard were most of the trees reared in England, together with many which will not stand the rigour of our climate.—The apple,[1344] cultivated with peculiar care in the environs of Delphi and Corinth; the pear,[1345] the cherry from Cerasos on the southern shore of the Black Sea,[1346] which sometimes grew to the height of nearly forty feet,[1347] the damascene,[1348] and the common plum. Along with these were likewise to be found the quince,[1349] the apricot, the peach, the nectarine, the walnut, the chestnut, the filbert, introduced from Pontos,[1350] the hazel nut, the medlar, and the mulberry, which, according to Menander, is the earliest fruit of the year.[1351] With these were intermingled the fig, white, purple, and red, the pomegranate,[1352] from the northern shores of Africa, the orange,[1353] still planted under artificial shelter at Lemnos, the citron, the lemon,[1354] the date-palm,[1355] the pistachio, the almond, the service, and the cornel-tree. ----- Footnote 1344: On the cultivation of the apple see Theophrast. Hist. Plant. i. 3. 3. Geop. xviii. 18. Footnote 1345: Athen. xiv. 63. Etym. Mag. 122. 20. Footnote 1346: Geop. x. 41. Plin. xv. 25. Athen. ii. 35. Footnote 1347: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iii. 13. 1. Footnote 1348: Etym. Mag. 211. 4, sqq. Footnote 1349: Geop. x. 3. 73. Footnote 1350: Geop. xiii. 19. Athen. ii. 38. Footnote 1351: Athen. ii. 12. Vid. Cœl. Rhodigin. vii. 15. Bochart, Geog. Sac. col. 629. Footnote 1352: Theophrast. Hist. Plant. i. 3. 3. The fruit of the pomegranate-tree lost much of its acidity in Egypt. Id. Hist. Plant. ii. 2. 7. Footnote 1353: