Note 14 — Chapter XXXII · CHRISTMAS TREES AND OTHER PINE TREES
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It is, according to botanical authorities, from the wood of the silver fir, which still grows on Mount Ida, that the Greeks, as related by Virgil, constructed the Trojan horse.
"Instar montis equum, divina Palladis arte Ædificant, sectaque intexunt abiete costas! (A horse of mountain size they build By art divine of Pallas helped And weave its ribs with planks of fir). "Æneid," ii. 15.