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most authorities ; wherefore some call it simply 

 ' the seed-time.' Another time is at the beginning 

 of spring after the winter equinox. However 

 different crops are sown at the two seasons. For 

 some of them love to be sown early, some late 

 because they cannot bear the winters, while some 

 will do not amiss at either season, both towards 

 winter and towards spring. 



Crops sown early are wheat and barley, and of 

 these the latter is sown the earlier ; also rice-wheat 

 one-seeded wheat olyra, 1 and others which resemble 

 wheat. For all of these the time of sowing is about 

 the same. Of leguminous plants 2 bean and okhros? 

 it may be said, are specially sown at this time ; for 

 these on account of their weakness like to be well 

 rooted before the winter. Lupin is also sown early ; 

 in fact they say it should be sown straight from the 

 threshing-floor. 4 



Those which are sown late are certain special 

 varieties 5 of these very kinds, as a certain kind of 

 wheat, and of barley the kind which is called ' three 

 months barley ' because it takes that time to mature ; 

 and among leguminous plants lentil tare pea. 

 However some of these plants are sown at both 

 seasons, as vetch and chick-pea ; some also sow 

 beans late, if they have missed the first seed-time. 

 To speak generally, some crops are sown early 

 because of their robustness, since they can stand 

 the winters, some because of their weakness, so 

 that their growth may be secured 6 in the fine 

 weather. These then are the two seasons ; the 

 third is that of the summer crops of which we 



8 rots ytvefftv : TTJ yevefffi W. i.e. 'certain kinds which 

 differ as to their germination.' 6 cj. G. P. 4. 7. 2. 



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