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[19] sucum et pinguitudinem.Sed si velis scrobibus 1 [p. 120] egestam humum recondere et recalcare, cum aliquo quasi fermento abundaverit, certum erit esse eam pinguem; cum defuerit, exilem; cum aequaverit, mediocrem. Quamquam ista, quae nunc rettuli, non tam vera possint2videri, si sit pulla terra, quae

1 conspergitur S2 et R aliquot, edd. ante Lundstrōm. a Georg. II. 250. Palladius (I. 5. 3) also considers this a test of fat soil; but Pliny (XVII. 27) remarks that stickiness is not a true test of fat soil, for potter's clay has the same quality.

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Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.

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