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[3] Malleolus autem novellus est palmes innatus prioris anni flagello, cognominatusque ad similitudinem,1quod in ea parte, qua 2deciditur ex vetere sarmento, prominens utrimque mallei speciem praebet. Hunc ex fecundissima stirpe 3legendum censemus omni tempore quo vineae putantur, ac super terram gemmis tribus vel quattuor extantibus diligenter obruendum loco modice umido non uliginoso; dum tamen antiquissimum sit considerare ne vitis, ex qua is sumitur, ancipitem floris habeat eventum, ne difficulter acinus 4ingrandescat, ne aut praecoquem 5aut serae maturitatis fructum adferat. Nam illa volucribus, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [p. 270]
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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