Res Rustica
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.
Sequente deinde anno insecatur superior pars curvaturae usque ad medullam, ne totas vires matris propagatum flagellum in se trahat, et ut paulatim condiscat suis radicibus ali. Bima deinde praeciditur proxime palmam quae ex arcu summissa est. Et id quod a matre abscisum recessit, confestim alte circumfoditur. et scrobiculo facto ad imum solum praeciditur,[*]()adobruiturque, ut et radices deorsum agat, nec ex propinquo neglegenter in summa terra resectum [*]()
progerminet. Tempus autem non aliud magis [*](praeducitur c. ) [*](resecta SAacM, vett. edd. a I.e. missing vines must be replaced. b The mergus, " layer," was so called because, without being separated from the nurse vine, it " dives " (mergit) into the ground and then reappears, like a diving bird (mergus). Cf. Palladius, III. 16. 1, Mergum dicimus, quoties velut arcus supra terram relinquitur, alia parte vitis infossa. c I.e. the bend under ground. d Closer to the parent vine. )