45. The best remedies for the diseases of grain 57 46. The crops that should be sown in the different soils 59 47. The different systems of cultivation employed by various nations 60 49. The mode of ploughing.. 50. The methods of harrowing, stubbing, and hoeing, employed for each description of grain. 51. Extreme fertility of soil The use of the harrow 52. The method of sowing more than once in the year 53. The manuring of land 54. How to ascertain the quality of seed 55. What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for sowing a 56. The proper times for sowing 57. Arrangement of the stars according to the terrestrial days and 58. The rising and setting of the stars 59. The epochs of the seasons 60. The proper time for winter sowing 61. When to sow the leguminous plants and the poppy 62. Work to be done in the country in each month respectively ::::::: 64. Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence 65. Work to be done between the prevalence of the west winds and 66. Work to be done after the vernal equinox 67. Work to be done after the rising of the Vergiliæ: hay-making 84 86 88 92 97 101 102 103 104 CHAP. Page 76. The theory of the winds... 113 77. The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind 114 117 119 80. Prognostics derived from the stars.. 120 81. Prognostics derived from thunder.. 121 ib. 83. Prognostics derived from mists 122 84. Prognostics derived from fire kindled by man ib. 85. Prognostics derived from water ib. 86. Prognostics derived from tempests 123 87. Prognostics derived from aquatic animals and birds ib. 88. Prognostics derived from quadrupeds 89. Prognostics derived from plants 90. Prognostics derived from food 125 BOOK XIX. THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS. 1. The nature of flax-marvellous facts relative thereto 3. The mode of preparing fiax 5. At what period linen was first dyed 6. At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the 129 2. How flax is sown: twenty-seven principal varieties of it 9. At what period spartum was first employed 11. Plants which spring up and grow without a root-plants which 7. The nature of spartum 8. The mode of preparing spartum 10. The bulb eriophorus grow, but cannot be reproduced from seed 12. Misy; iton; and geranion 13. Particulars connected with the truffle 14. The pezica 15. Laserpitium, laser, and maspetum. 16. Magydaris 17. Madder 18. The radicula 21. Plants other than grain and shrubs 22. The natural history of twenty different kinds of plants grown in ib. 149 154 155 ib. CHAP. Page 23. Vegetables of a cartilaginous nature-cucumbers. Pepones 156 24. Gourds 158 30. Bulbs, squills, and arum.. 168 31. The roots, flowers, and leaves of all these plants. Garden plants 170 35. The number of days required for the respective plants to make 177 36. The nature of the various seeds 178 37. Plants of which there is but a single kind. Plants of which there 179 38. The nature and varieties of twenty-three garden plants. The 180 44. Other plants that are sown in the garden: ocimum; rocket; 191 53. The poppy 196 56. Four kinds of ferulaceous plants. Hemp 54. Other plants which require to be sown at the autumnal equinox 197 ib. 198 57. The maladies of garden plants 199 58. The proper remedies for these maladies. How ants are best de- BOOK XX. СПАР. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS. 1. Introduction .. 2. The wild cucumber: twenty-six remedies 3. Elaterium: twenty-seven remedies 4. The anguine or erratic cucumber: five remedies 5. The cultivated cucumber: nine remedies 6. Pepones: eleven remedies 7. The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus: one remedy 9. Rape: nine remedies 10. Wild rape: one remedy.. 11. Turnips; those known as bunion and bunias: five remedies plistolochia: eleven remedies The hibiscum, wild mallow, or .. 15. The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remedies 17. The skirret eleven remedies 18. Sile, or hartwort: twelve remedies 25. Cæsapon: one remedy. Isatis: one remedy. The wild lettuce: seven remedies 26. Hawk-weed: seventeen remedies 213 214 ib. 215 ib. 218 ib. 219 220 221 The goat-lettuce: four re- 228 ib. 229 30. Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called paneration, or ambula: 234 31. Hedypnoïs: four remedies ib. 32. Seris, three varieties of it: seven remedies borrowed from it 235 33. The cabbage: eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Cato CHAP. Page 41. Bulbine: one remedy. Bulb emetic 244 42. Garden asparagus; with the next, twenty-four remedies 245 ib. 44. Parsley seventeen remedies. 246 45. Apiastrum, or melissophyllum 247 46. Olusatrum or Hipposelinon: eleven remedies. Oreoselinon: two remedies. Helioselinon: one remedy 49. Rocket: twelve remedies 50. Nasturtium: forty-two remedies 51. Rue: eighty-four remedies 52. Wild mint: twenty remedies 248 47. Petroselinon: one remedy. Buselinon: one remedy ib. 249 250 251 252 256 58. Ammi ten remedies 59. The capparis or caper: eighteen remedies 61. Cunila bubula: five remedies 62. Cunila gallinacea, or origanum: five remedies 64. Soft cunila: three remedies. medies.. Wild cummin: twenty-six 262 263 264 265 ib. 266 ib. Libanotis: three remedies.. ib. Mountain cunila: seven re- 267 66. Piperitis, or siliquastrum: five remedies ib. 67. Origanum, onitis, or prasion: six remedies.. 268 73. Where the best anise is found: various remedies derived from 75. Sacopenium, or sagapenon: thirteen remedies 76. The white poppy: three remedies. The black poppy eight re- 275 77. The poppy called rhoeas: two remedies 278 78. The wild poppy called ceratitis, glaucium, or paralium: six re- medies.. ib. 79. The wild poppy called heraclium, or aphron: four remedies. Diacodion ib. |