Stolo, Non male, inquit, quae sit idonea terra ad colendum aut non, Diophanes Bithynos scribit signa sumi posse aut ex ipsa aut quae nascuntur ex iis: ex ipsa, si sit terra alba, si nigra, si levis, quae cum fodiatur, facile frietur, natura quae non sit cineracia neve vehementer densa; ex iis autem quae enata sunt fera, si sunt prolixa atque quae ex iis nasci debent earum rerum feracia.
Diophanes of Bithynia makes a good point, remarked Stolo, when he writes that you can judge whether land is fit for cultivation or not, either from the soil itself or from the vegetation growing on it: from the soil according as it is white or black, light and crumbling easily when it is dug, of a consistency not ashy and not excessively heavy; from the wild vegetation growing on it if it is luxuriant and bearing abundantly its natural products.
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