[3092] This practice has been condemned by modern cultivators.
[3093] From Columella, B. iii. c. 19.
[3094] In c. [24] of this Book.
[3095] “Marra.” Probably a mattock, with several prongs.
[3096] Occupies more space when thus loosened.
[3097] As compared with the original level of the ground.
[3098] Query, if this is the meaning of “extendi”?
[3099] This method is no longer used.
[3100] This, Fée remarks, is not the case: the tree might bear four kinds of grapes, but not four kinds on the same bunch.
[3101] De Arbor. c. 9. This is not the fact.