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sort becomes) loves shade, and in sunny places you 

 must sow violets and make gardens, for their growth 

 jpends on sunlight. And so for other things. And 

 in one place you must plant a shrubbery, so as 

 to have osiers for plaiting such things as wicker 

 baskets, winnowing fans,* and hurdles; in another 

 you may plant and grow a wood for timber, [in 

 5 another] a wood where you may catch birds; in 

 another you should grow hemp, flax, rushes, es- 

 parto grass — for weaving shoes for the oxen and 

 making string, cords, and ropes. Some places, in- 

 ced, are suitable for sowing more than one thing 

 at once. Thus, in newly planted orchards, when 

 the seeds have been sown at proper intervals and 

 the saplings planted in rows, in the first years before 

 the roots can go far, some people sow garden 

 flowers, others other things ; but when the trees 

 have grown strong they do not do so, for fear of 

 damaging the roots. 



Said Stolo: In this connection what Cato writes 

 about crops seems good — that heavy and fertile soil, 

 if it be without trees, should be sown with corn ; 

 while if the same is cold, it is best to sow on it 

 turnips, radishes, millet, and panic. 



* Vallus or vallos. Cf. note on xxii, i. 



