Columella
was a native of what is now Cadiz, Spain. He passed
most of his life in Italy. The date of his birth and
death are unknown but he is supposed to have lived in
the 1st century A.D. His work De Re Rustica was
comprised of 13 books. It was a complete treatise on
various phases of agricultural matters as well as the
culture of gardens.
Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella),
On Agriculture (De Re Rustica),
Harvard Univ. Press, 1934.
Bradley, R. 1725. A Survey of the Ancient
Husbandry and Gardening Collected from Cato, Varro,
Columella,
Virgil, and others, the most eminent writers
among the Greeks and Romans.
Read Preface, and note general contents of
book, also Chapters I, XIX, XX.
