TY  - BOOK
AU  - Columella,Lucius Junius Moderatus
AU  - Ash,Harrison Boyd
AU  - Forster,E.S.(Edward Seymour)
AU  - 
TI  - On agriculture
T2  - The Loeb classical library
SN  - 0674993985 (v. 1)
PY  - 1940///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Early works to 1800
N1  - Vols. 2-3 translated by E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner; Vols. 2-3 rev. and repr. 1968; Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. xxvii-xxxii) and indexes; 1. On agriculture, books I-IV -- 2. On agriculture, books V-IX -- 3. On agriculture X-XII. On trees
N2  - Columella (first century CE) included Cato and Varro among many sources for On Agriculture, but his personal experience was paramount. Written in prose except for the hexameters on horticulture of Book 10, the work is richly informative about country life in first century CE Italy
ER  -