LIBER XVI · CAPUT 28
WHICH TREES BECOME OLD WITH THE GREATEST RAPIDITY, AND WHICH MOST SLOWLY
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
contra morus tardissime senescit, fructu minime laborans, tarde et ea, quorum crispa materies, ut palma, acer, populus.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
On the other hand, the mulberry becomes aged but very slowly, and is never exhausted by its crops. Those trees, too, the wood of which is variegated, arrive at old age but slowly,—the palm, the maple, and the poplar, for instance.