| On the horticultural level, he gives technical descriptions of graftage and cuttage and discusses the role of pollination of date palms and the caprification of fig. |
| I cannot learn that caprification is now practised in Italy, but it is still in use in Greece. |
| Thirty or forty years ago I read all that I could find about caprification, and was utterly puzzled. |
| The comparison of the fertilization of the date palm to the use of the wild fig refers to the practice of caprification. |
