Columella Res Rustica 2.2.21

ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner

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[21] Nec contentos esse nos oportet prima specie summi soli, sed diligenter exploranda est inferioris materiae qualitas, terrena necne sit. Frumentis autem sat erit, si aeque bona suberit bipedanea humus; arboribus altitudo quattuor pedum abunde est. Haec cum ita exploraverimus, agrum sationibus ¹²³⁴⁵⁶ faciundis expediemus. Is autem non minimum exuberat, si curiose et scite subigitur. Quare antiquissimum est formam huius operis conscribere,⁷quam velut sectam legemque in proscindendis agris sequantur agricolae.

Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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Res Rustica. Books I-IX (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.)

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Res Rustica

1. possunt M, Ald., Gesn., Schn.

2. Sapore Ald., Gesn., Schn.

3. sic om. Gesn., Schn.

4. dignoscemus, si ex Ald., Gesn., Schn.

5. humi M.

6. non tamen nisi AR, vett. edd. a Such a soil test is mentioned also by Vergil (Georg. II. 226-237) and Palladius (loc. cit.). Pliny (loc. cit.) rejects the test as inconclusive. b Cf. I. Praef. 24. c On testing by tasting cf. De Arb. 3. 6; Vergil, Georg. II. 238-247; Palladius, loc. cit.

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