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NRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLVI.
P135
1855
CONTENTS V. 4
OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
круг MAIN
BOOK XVIII.
CHAP.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.
1. Taste of the ancients for agriculture
2. When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome
3. The jugerum of land
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4. How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably
low price
5. Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture
6. Points to be observed in buying land
7. The proper arrangements for a farm-house
8. Maxims of the ancients on agriculture ..
9. The different kinds of grain
10. The history of the various kinds of grain
11. Spelt
12. Wheat
13. Barley rice
14. Polenta
18. The nature of barley
19. Arinca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East
20. Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour
21. The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat
26. The various kinds of leaven
27. The method of making bread: origin of the art
28. When bakers were first introduced at Rome
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44. The diseases of grain: the oat
45. The best remedies for the diseases of grain
46. The crops that should be sown in the different soils
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47. The different systems of cultivation employed by various nations
48. The various kinds of ploughs..
49. The mode of ploughing..
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50. The methods of harrowing, stubbing, and hoeing, employed for
each description of grain. The use of the harrow
51. Extreme fertility of soil
52. The method of sowing more than once in the year
53. The manuring of land
54. How to ascertain the quality of seed
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55. What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for sowing a
jugerum
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56. The proper times for sowing
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57. Arrangement of the stars according to the terrestrial days and
61. When to sow the leguminous plants and the poppy
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62. Work to be done in the country in each month respectively
63. Work to be done at the winter solstice
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64. Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence
of the west winds
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65. Work to be done between the prevalence of the west winds and
the vernal equinox
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66. Work to be done after the vernal equinox
67. Work to be done after the rising of the Vergiliæ : hay-making
68. The summer solstice
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76. The theory of the winds..
77. The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind
78. Prognostics derived from the sun
79. Prognostics derived from the moon
80. Prognostics derived from the stars..
81. Prognostics derived from thunder..
82. Prognostics derived from clouds
83. Prognostics derived from mists
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84. Prognostics derived from fire kindled by man
85. Prognostics derived from water
86. Prognostics derived from tempests
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87. Prognostics derived from aquatic animals and birds
88. Prognostics derived from quadrupeds
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89. Prognostics derived from plants
90. Prognostics derived from food
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BOOK XIX.
THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS
GARDEN PLANTS.
1. The nature of flax-marvellous facts relative thereto
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2. How flax is sown: twenty-seven principal varieties of it
6. At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the
theatres
7. The nature of spartum
8. The mode of preparing spartum
9. At what period spartum was first employed
11. Plants which spring up and grow without a root-plants which
grow, but cannot be reproduced from seed
12. Misy; iton; and geranion
13. Particulars connected with the truffle
15. Laserpitium, laser, and maspetum..
16. Magydaris
17. Madder
18. The radicula
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21. 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 sowing them
respectively..