There are numerous varieties of pomes. Of the citron[1790] we have already made mention when describing its tree; the Greeks gave it the name of “Medica,”[1791] from its native country. The jujube[1792]-tree and the tuber[1793] are equally exotics; indeed, they have, both of them, been introduced only of late years into Italy; the latter from Africa, the former from Syria. Sextus Papinius, whom we have seen consul,[1794] introduced them both in the latter years of the reign of Augustus, produced from slips which he had grown within his camp. The fruit of the jujube more nearly resembles a berry than an apple: the tree sets off a terrace[1795] remarkably well, and it is not uncommon to see whole woods of it climbing up to the very roofs of the houses. Of the tuber there are two varieties; the white, and the one called “syricum,”[1796] from its colour. Those fruits, too, may be almost pronounced exotic which grow nowhere in Italy but in the territory of Verona, and are known as the wool-fruit.[1797] They are covered with a woolly down; this is found, it is true, to a very considerable extent, on both the strutheum variety of quince and the peach, but still it has given its name to this particular fruit, which is recommended to us by no other remarkable quality. CHAP. 15.—THE FRUITS THAT HAVE BEEN MOST RECENTLY INTRODUCED. Why should I hesitate to make some mention, too, of other varieties by name, seeing that they have conferred everlasting remembrance on those who were the first to introduce them, as having rendered some service to their fellow-men? Unless I am very much mistaken, an enumeration of them will tend to throw some light upon the ingenuity that is displayed in the art of grafting, and it will be the more easily understood that there is nothing so trifling in itself from which a certain amount of celebrity cannot be ensured. Hence it is that we have fruits which derive their names from Matius,[1798] Cestius, Mallius, and Scandius.[1799] Appius, too, a member of the Claudian family, grafted the quince on the Scandian fruit, in consequence of which the produce is known as the Appian. This fruit has the smell of the quince, and is of the same size as the Scandian apple, and of a ruddy colour. Let no one, however, imagine that this name was merely given in a spirit of flattery to an illustrious family, for there is an apple known as the Sceptian,[1800] which owes its name to the son of a freedman, who was the first to introduce it: it is remarkable for the roundness of its shape. To those already mentioned, Cato[1801] adds the Quirinian and the Scantian varieties, which last, he says, keep remarkably well in large vessels.[1802] The latest kind of all, however, that has been introduced is the small apple known as the Petisian,[1803] remarkable for its delightful flavour: the Amerinian[1804] apple, too, and the little Greek[1805] have conferred renown on their respective countries.