24-february

Updated: May 10, 2025

This is the season also to dig new ditches, clean the old ones, and to prune the trees in the arbustum and the vines which are married to them, but be careful that you suspend most of your work during the fifteen days before and after the winter solstice: it is fitting, however, to set out some trees during this period, as, for example, elms. 8° December 24-February 7

- Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro