The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4

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H. G. Bohn, 1856 - Natural history
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Contents

The different kinds of grain 10 The history of the various kinds of grain 11 Spelt 12 Wheat
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Winter wheat Similago or fine flour
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The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat
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Sesame Erysimum or irio Horminum
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The mode of grinding corn
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Millet
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seventeen remedies
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Shrubs the leaves of which are used for chaplets
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seven remedies
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seven remedies borrowed from
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two varieties of it Plants
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The blossom of the olive four remedies
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Panic 26 The various kinds of leaven
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origin of the
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When bakers were first introduced at Rome
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Alica
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the bean
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Poisoned honey and the remedies to be employed by those
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Lentils Pease
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The kidneybean 34 The rape 35 The turnip 36 The lupine
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That bees are sensible of hunger
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The vetch 38 The fitch 39 Silicia
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the cracca 42 Ocinum ervilia
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The manuring of land
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How to ascertain the quality of seed
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What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for sowing a jugerum
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The proper times for sowing
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Arrangement of the stars according to the terrestrial days and nights
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The rising and setting of the stars
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The epochs of the seasons
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The different systems of cultivation employed by various nations
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The various kinds of ploughs
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eight remedies
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The mode of ploughing
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Wild plums two remedies
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thirty remedies
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thirteen remedies
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thirteen remedies
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The proper time for winter sowing
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The laurel sixtynine observations upon
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When to sow the leguminous plants and the poppy 62 Work to be done in the country in each month respectively
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Work to be done at the winter solstice
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Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence of the west winds
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the vernal equinox
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Work to be done after the vernal equinox
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haymaking 68 The summer solstice
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Causes of sterility
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Remedies against these noxious influences
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Work to be done after the summer solstice
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The harvest
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The methods of storing corn
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The vintage and the works of autumn
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The revolutions of the moon
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The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind 78 Prognostics derived from the
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Prognostics derived from the moon
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Prognostics derived from the stars
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Prognostics derived from thunder 82 Prognostics derived from clouds
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Prognostics derived from mists 84 Prognostics derived from fire kindled by man 85 Prognostics derived from water
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Linen made of asbestos Page 113
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At what period linen was first dyed 6 At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the theatres
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The nature of spartum
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Madder 18 The radicula
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The pleasures of the garden
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The laying out of garden ground 114 117 119 120 121
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Plants other than grain and shrubs 22 The natural history of twenty different kinds of plants grown in gardens the proper methods to be followed in s...
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Elecampane
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The leek
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Plants of which there is but a single kind Plants of which there
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Cabbages the several varieties of them
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ocimum rocket
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Other plants which require to be sown at the autumnal equinox
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Piperitis libanotis and smyrnium
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Introduction
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Diacodion
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ib ib 39 40 41 43
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thirteen remedies The mallow
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Adarca fortyeight remedies
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Fennel twentytwo remedies
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The nature of flowers and gardens
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The vine
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with them The strawberry the tamnus and the butchers
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The carduus the acorna the phonos the leucanthos the chal
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Eight remedies derived from asarum
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Twentyeight remedies derived from thyme
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BOOK XXII
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Explanation of the terms
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one remedy
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four remedies
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fourteen remedies
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five remedies
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Mushrooms peculiarities of their growth
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Propolis five remedies
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one remedy Wheat
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Lentils seventeen remedies
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six remedies
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seven remedies
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The white vine otherwise called ampeloleuce staphyle melothron
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six remedies
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