Ancient Latin Writers on Agriculture, Vol. II: Columella

XVIII. What one who plants a vine must observe.
XIX. How long the vine-cutting should be.
XX. How many varieties of vines should be planted.
XXI. Whether gardens should be planted with distinct varieties of vines.

BOOK V.

I. Contrary to the opinion of Atticus a historical figure/author and Celsus a Roman encyclopedist, that two-foot trenches are not deep enough for vine seeds.
II. That one should not clothe two stakes with a rooted cutting, but that individual seeds should be provided with individual supports.
III. That a new vineyard plantation dies quickly unless it is helped by great and continuous cultivation.
IV. That the vine should be laid prostrate in the trench and, once curved from the lowest ground, should be attached straight to a reed.
V. That from the time of planting it must be dug every month, and care must be taken that weeds do not grow, and that rooted cuttings must be reduced to a single stem.
VI. That vine-pruning pampinatio removal of excess leaves or shoots must be applied to cuttings.
VII. That pruning is timely when the young shoots are removed by the finger.
VIII. That one should not remove the knots from the vine shoots during the summer.
IX. That the vineyard must be trenched ablaqueare to expose the roots for winter during the autumn.
X. How a trenched vineyard is pruned.
XI. What is the best time for pruning.
XII. How a vine-cutting should be cut back.
XIII. How a vineyard should be staked, and on the cross-beam canterius.
XIV. How a vine should be tied.
XV. That a yoke should be imposed on the cuttings, and how high the cross-beam should be raised.
XVI. How a young vineyard should be tended, and how layers propago shoots bent to take root should be made.
XVII. At what time a rooted cutting should be transplanted.
XVIII. How a yoke should be made from reeds.
XIX. How vineyards should be divided into small garden plots.
XX. On the positioning of the yoke, and how far it should be raised from the ground.
XXI. How a young vineyard should be pruned.