BOOK VII 



OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS, OTHER THAN CORONARY PLANTS : 

 POT-HERBS AND SIMILAR WILD HERBS. 



Of the times of sowing and of germination of pot-herbs. 



I. Next we have to tell of herbaceous plants : for 

 this class remains of those which we distinguished 

 at the outset, and it includes to some extent the 

 classes of pot-herbs and of cereals. And first we 

 must speak of the class of pot-herbs,, beginning with 

 the cultivated kinds,, since it happens that these are 

 better known than the wild kinds. 



1 There are three seed-times for all things grown 

 in gardens, at which men sow the various herbs, 

 distinguishing by the season. One is the ( winter ' 

 seed-time, another the 'summer/ and the third is 

 that which falls between these, coming after the 

 winter solstice. These terms however are given in 

 regard not to the sowing, but to the growth and use 

 of each kind ; for the actual sowing takes place, one 

 might almost say, at the opposite seasons. Thus, 

 the ' winter ' period begins after the summer 2 

 solstice in the month Metageitnion, 3 in which they 

 sow cabbage radish turnip, and what are called 

 ' secondary crops/ that is to say, beet lettuce rocket 

 monk's rhubarb mustard coriander dill cress ; and 



2 Beptvas conj. Seal.; xetjuepu/as U(?)MP 2 Ald.G (ed. Bas. and 

 Par. but not ed. Tarv.). 

 8 July. 5 before M. om. Sch. 



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