Editing Columella (section)

===''De arboribus''===
[[File:De re rustica.tif|thumb|''De re rustica'', 1564]]
The short work ''{{Lang|la|De arboribus}}'', "On Trees", is in manuscripts and early editions of Columella considered as book 3 of ''{{Lang|la|De re rustica}}''.{{r|penny}} However, it is clear from the opening sentences that it is part of a separate and possibly earlier work. As the anonymous translator of the Millar edition notes, in ''{{Lang|la|De arboribus}}'' there is no mention of the Publius Silvinus to whom the ''{{Lang|la|De re rustica}}'' is addressed.{{r|millar|page=571}} A recent critical edition of the Latin text of the ''{{Lang|la|De re rustica}}'' includes it, but as ''{{Lang|la|incerti auctoris}}'', by an unknown hand.<ref name=rodgers /> [[Cassiodorus]] mentions sixteen books of Columella, which has led to the suggestion that ''{{Lang|la|De arboribus}}'' formed part of a work in four volumes.{{r|penny}}