92 I VARRO ON FARMING [bk. 



CHAPTER XLIII 



CYTISUS 



Cytisus^ is sown in well-ploughed land, like 

 cabbage seed. Thence it is transplanted and set at 

 intervals of a foot and a half ; or else small branches 

 are taken from the more hardened plant, and are 

 set out and planted in the same way. 



CHAPTER XLIV 



OF CROPS 



1 Beans are sown four pecks to the iugeruniy wheat 

 five, barley six, and spelt ten, but in some places it 

 may be a little more or less — more if the soil be 

 rich, less if poor. So it will be your practice to 

 adopt the quantity which is customary in your 

 district, as the influence of the kind of soil in a 

 district is so great that the same seed yields in some 

 places ten-fold, in others fifteen-fold, as in several 



2 parts of Etruria. In Italy too, in the country about 

 Sybaris, they say that the usual yield is a hundred 

 fold, and in Syria near Gadara, and in Africa in 



^ Cytisum, the more usual form of which is Cytisus^ was, 

 according to Keightley (" Flora Virgiliana," p. 381), the name 

 given to two different plants, (i) the laburnum, and (2) the 

 arborescent lucerne. 



