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.

taxi repudiantur. Mille praeterea semina vel crudo cespite virentia, vel subacta sulco, flores amicissimos apibus creant, ut sunt in virgineo [*]()solo frutices amelli, caules acanthini, scapus asphodeli, gladiolus narcissi. At in hortensi lira consita nitent candida lilia, nec his sordidiora leucoia,[*]()tum puniceae [*]()rosae luteolaeque, et Sarranae violae, nec minus caelestis luminis hyacinthus, Corycius item Siculusque bulbus croci deponitur, qui coloret odoretque mella.[*]()Iam vero notae vilioris innumerabiles nascuntur herbae cultis atque pascuis regionibus, quae favorum ceras exuberant: