text: " Indeed! and the chestnut-trees opposite? Oh! in this land of chestnut-trees we don't pay _prezzi d'affezione_ for them--a good tree standing in the _plain_ may cost about eight or ten scudi and may yield about four sacks of shelled fruit in a good year; but it is a capricious tree even in the _plain_; while those on the _mountain_ the roots of which derive a precarious subsistence from the uncertain soil are liable to be blown down and are made pollards of at an early age to prevent this mishap; also they are frequently burned down by bonfires kindled under them to destroy the furze