ne fait que traverser, simply passes through

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2. Columelle, Columella. His work De Re rustica is the most important Latin treatise on ancient agriculture.

3. Palladius, a Roman writer on agriculture who lived probably between 300 and 400 a.d.

4. Olivier de Serres (about 1 539-1 61 9), born at Villeneuve-de- Berg, department of Ardèche, in southern France.

5. Le capitaine Walter Bligh, an Englishman who, about 1650, published a work "which is interesting, as embodying and boldly advocating the theory of deep-drainage as applied by him to watermeadows and swamps, and so applicable to the drainage of ail other moist lands."