[11]
This phenomenon is familiar to
farmers, who hold that the pruning-hook should not
be applied while the leaves are yet young, for they
seem to “shrink from the steel”1 and to be unable
as yet to endure a scar.
1 cp. Verg. G. ii. 369, ante reformidat ferrum.
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