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Caule suburbano, gut siccis crevit in agrts, 

 Dulcior ; irriguis nihil est elutius hortis. 

 "Plants from dry fields those of the town excel ; 

 Nothing more tasteless is than watered grounds." 



Any man had better throw away his care and 

 his money upon any thing else, than upon a 

 garden in wet or moist ground. Peaches and 

 grapes will have no taste but upon a sand or 

 gravel; but the richer these are, the better; 

 and neither salads, pease, or beans, have at all 

 the taste upon a clay or rich earth, as they have 

 upon either of the others, though the size and 

 color of fruits and plants may, perhaps, be more 

 upon the worse soils. 



Next to your choice of soil, is to suit your 

 plants to your ground, since of this every one 

 is not master : though perhaps Varro's judg- 

 ment, upon this case, is the wisest and the best; 

 for to one that asked him, what he should do if 

 his father or ancestors had left him a seat in an 

 ill air, or upon an ill soil, he answered : " Why, 

 sell it, and buy another in good." " But what 

 if I cannot get half the worth ? " " Why, then 

 take a quarter ; but however sell it for any 

 thing, rather than live upon it." 



Of all sorts of soil, the best is that upon a 

 sandy gravel, or a rosiny sand ; whoever lies 

 upon either of these may run boldly into all the 

 best sort of peaches and grapes, how shallow 



