Georg. 2.9Prīncipiō arboribus varia est nātūra creandīs.To begin with, nature has varied ways of producing trees. Georg. 2.10namque aliae nūllīs hominum cōgentibus ipsae
sponte suā veniunt campōsque et flūmina lātē
curva tenent, ut molle siler lentaeque genestae,
pōpulus et glauca canentia fronde salicta;For some, with no man compelling them, come up of themselves of their own accord and occupy the plains and winding rivers far and wide, like the soft osier and the pliant broom, the poplar and the willow-beds whitening with grey-green leaf; Georg. 2.14pars autem positō surgunt dē sēmine, ut altae
15castaneae nemorumque Iovī quae maxima frondet
aesculus atque habitae Grāīs ōrācula quercūs.but some rise from planted seed, like the tall chestnuts, and the durmast oak, mightiest of the groves in its leafage for Jupiter, and the oaks the Greeks held to be oracles. Georg. 2.17Pullulat ab rādīce aliīs dēnsissima silva,
ut cerasīs ulmīsque;For others a very dense thicket sprouts from the root, as for cherries and elms; Georg. 2.18etiam Parnāsia laurus
parva sub ingentī mātris sē subicit umbrā.the Parnassian laurel too, while small, springs up beneath its mother's huge shade.
Georg. 2.20Hōs nātūra modōs prīmum dedit, hīs genus omne
silvārum fruticumque viret nemorumque sacrōrum.These ways nature first gave; by these every kind of forest and shrub and sacred grove grows green. Georg. 2.22Sunt aliae, quās ipse viā sibi repperit ūsus.There are other ways, which experience itself has found for itself by method. Georg. 2.23Hīc plantās tenerō abscindēns dē corpore mātrum
dēposuit sulcīs, hīc stirpēs obruit arvō
25quadrifidāsque sudēs et acūtō rōbore vallōs;One man has cut suckers from the tender body of their mothers and set them in furrows; another has buried stocks in the field, both four-split stakes and poles of sharpened wood; Georg. 2.26silvārumque aliae pressōs prōpāginis arcūs
exspectant et vīvā sua plantāria terrā;and some forest trees await the pressed-down arches of the layer, and nurseries living in their own soil; Georg. 2.28nīl rādīcis egent aliae summumque putātor
haud dubitat terrae referēns mandāre cacūmen.others need no root, and the pruner does not hesitate to entrust the topmost shoot to the earth, giving it back to her. Georg. 2.30Quīn et caudicibus sectīs—mīrābile dictū—
trūditur ē siccō rādīx oleāgina lignō.Indeed, even when the trunks are cut — wonderful to tell — an olive root pushes out from the dry wood.
Georg. 2.32Et saepe alterīus rāmōs inpūne vidēmus
vertere in alterīus mūtātamque īnsitā māla
ferre pirum et prūnīs lapidōsa rubēscere corna.And often we see the branches of one tree turn without harm into those of another, the pear, transformed, bear grafted apples, and stony cornels blush red on plum trees.