THE ORIGINAL PREFACE TO 

 VOL. I 



The text here translated, for Books I-II, VI-VII, 

 X-XI, and De Arboribus, is based on that of 

 Lundstrom, with some changes in orthography, 

 punctuation, and capitalization to conform more 

 nearly to English and American usage. For the 

 remaining six books the translator has attempted 

 to construct a reasonably comparable text by the 

 collation of five important manuscripts with the 

 latest printed edition, that of Schneider (1794). 



The translator is greatly indebted to the Faculty 

 Research Fund of the University of Pennsylvania 

 for a grant which made it possible for him to examine 

 a number of Columella manuscripts abroad and to 

 purchase photostatic copies of the four major codices. 

 Grateful acknowledgment is made of the permission 

 of the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library to 

 include the readings of the Morgan manuscript of 

 Columella. The thanks of the writer are due also to 

 his colleague Axel Johan Uppvall, Professor of 

 Scandinavian Languages at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, for the translation of numerous Swedish 

 works. 



A full index to this work of Columella will be 

 supplied at the end of the third volimne when 

 issued. 



Harrison Bovd Ash. 



University of Pennsylvania 

 April 10, 1940 



