The country blooms with
all sorts of flowers and of green things, too, cultivated


 


 plants and shady forest-trees. The vines
bear twelve times a year, bringing forth their
fruit every month. But the pears and apples and
other fruits are said to come thirteen times yearly, for in one month, called there the month of
Minos, the trees bear twice. Instead of grain the
ears bear loaves, ready for eating, on their heads
like mushrooms. There are three hundred and
sixty-five springs of water about the city, as many
more of honey, and five hundred of perfumed oil;
but these are smaller. There are seven rivers of
milk and eight of wine.