BOOK IV. XXXIII. 4-6 



prop lasts longer than the round pole. The manage- 5 

 ment of setting and digging is the same as that of 

 the vineyard. It should be pruned lightly when two 

 years old, and again when three ; for twice in early 

 spring it must be attacked with the knife, that its 

 upward gro-wth may be hastened. The oak also 

 may be planted in like manner ; but it is cut down 

 two years later than the chestnut. For this reason 

 common sense requires that we profit rather by the 

 gain in time, unless it happens that brush-covered 

 and stony mountains, and the kinds of soil which we 

 mentioned above, demand the acorn rather than the 

 chestnut. 



These matters concerning Italian vineyards and 6 

 vineyard equipment I have discussed, so I believe, 

 fully and not A\1thout profit. I intend presently to 

 give an account of \iticulture among our provincial 

 farmers, also of the management of the arbustum both 

 in our own country and in Gaul. 



NOTE 



Triticum is wheat in general; often common wheat and two 

 other varieties; siligo is usually common wheat, but some- 

 times club- wheat; far and adoreum are both emmer- wheat 

 (two-grained wheat). 



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