“Theophrastus, who wrote about 300 years before Christ, mentions the {{w|almond}} as the only tree in Greece that produced the blossoms before the leaves. ...The almond-tree was not cultivated in Italy in the time of Cato, who calls the fruit, nucces græcæ, or greek nuts.”

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