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BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY.
NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY.
VOL. IV.
THE
NATURAL HISTORY
OF
PLINY.
TRANSLATED,
WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE LATE
JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S.,
AND
H. T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A.,
LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.
VOL. IV.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLVI.
CONTENTS
OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
BOOK XVIII.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.
CHAP. Page
1. Taste of the ancients for agriculture 1
2. When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome 3
3. The jugerum of land 4
4. How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably
low price 7
5. Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture 9
6. Points to be observed in buying land 11
7. The proper arrangements for a farm-house 13
8. Maxims of the ancients on agriculture 16
9. The different kinds of grain 19
10. The history of the various kinds of grain _ib._
11. Spelt 24
12. Wheat 25
13. Barley: rice 27
14. Polenta 28
15. Ptisan 29
16. Tragum _ib._
17. Amylum _ib._
18. The nature of barley 30
19. Arinca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the
East 31
20. Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour 32
21. The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat 35
22. Sesame. Erysimum or irio. Horminum 36
23. The mode of grinding corn _ib._
24. Millet 38
25. Panic _ib._
26. The various kinds of leaven _ib._
27. The method of making bread: origin of the art 39
28. When bakers were first introduced at Rome 40
29. Alica 41
30. The leguminous plants: the bean 43
31. Lentils. Pease 46
32. The several kinds of chick-pease _ib._
33. The kidney-bean 47
34. The rape _ib._
35. The turnip 48
36. The lupine 49
37. The vetch 51
38. The fitch _ib._
39. Silicia _ib._
40. Secale or asia 52
41. Farrago: the cracca _ib._
42. Ocinum: ervilia _ib._
43. Lucerne 53
44. The diseases of grain: the oat 54
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
48. The various kinds of ploughs 62
49. The mode of ploughing _ib._
50. The methods of harrowing, stubbing, and hoeing, employed
for each description of grain. The use of the harrow 66
51. Extreme fertility of soil 67
52. The method of sowing more than once in the year 68
53. The manuring of land _ib._
54. How to ascertain the quality of seed 69
55. What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for
sowing a jugerum 71
56. The proper times for sowing 72
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