Res Rustica
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.
serito. Mororum [*]()ab idib. Feb. usque ad aequinoctium vernum satio est. [*](mulsa ac: mulsia SA. ) [*](Scaudiana scripsi: Scaidianam S: Gaudiana Aac. ) [*](pedusiana SAac. ) [*](struthia Aac: strati S. ) [*](hiemem edd. ex libro de Arboribus 25, 1: essem SA: messem ac. ) [*](mororum edd. ex libro de Arboribus l.c.: malorum SA. a From Crustumium in Etruria. b From Signia in Latium. c So called, according to Pliny (N.H. XV. § 55) because they are ripe at the time of the barley-harvest. d So called from the person who introduced it (Pliny, l.c; Cato, R.R., VII. 3). e Probably called after a member of the gens Naevia, who perhaps also introduced the Naevian olive (Book XII. 50. 1). f Called after M. Favonius, an imitator of Cato (Cicero, Att. I. 14. 5). g From Laterium near Arpinum, where Q. Cicero had a villa (Cicero, Alt. XI. 1). )
Omnium autem generum ramos [*]()circa cal. Martias in hortis subacta [*]()et stercorata terra super pulvinos arearum disponere convenit. Danda est opera, ut dum teneros ramulos habent, veluti pampinentur, et ad unum stilum primo anno semina redigantur. Et cum autumnus incesserit, ante quam frigus cacumina adurat, omnia folia decerpere expedit, et ita crassis arundinibus, quae ab una parte nodos integros habeant, velut pileis [*]()induere, atque a frigore et gelicidiis teneras adhuc [*]()virgas tueri.