The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4

Pliny (the Elder.)

Henry G. Bohn, 1856 - Natural history

Contents

• CHAP: 1
• Remedies derived from other chaplet plants: 7
• twelve varieties of: 10
• Points to be observed in buying land: 11
• Arinca and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East: 19
• Panic: 25
• seven remedies: 29
• The several kinds of chickpease: 45
• Maddening honey: 45
• The vetch: 51
• The best remedies for the diseases of grain: 57
• The mode of ploughing: 63
• Wild plums two remedies: 68
• How to ascertain the quality of seed: 69
• The theory of the winds: 73
• The rising and setting of the stars: 77
• Prognostics derived from the moon: 79
• three remedies: 80
• Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence: 83
• Prognostics derived from water: 85
• The summer solstice: 93
• Causes of sterility: 99
• The vintage and the works of autumn: 107
• BOOK XIX: 129
• The mode of preparing fiax: 135
• At what period spartum was first employed: 141
• Magydaris: 147
• The laying out of garden ground: 154
• Rape Turnips: 161
• Elecampane: 167
• their appearance above ground: 177
• Cabbages the several varieties of them: 185
• Dittander: 195
• What plants are benefitted by salt water: 201
• nine remedies: 210
• five remedies: 218
• fortytwo remedies: 228
• thirtyseven remedies: 240
• Garden asparagus with the next twentyfour remedies: 245
• fortyeight remedies Wild cummin twentysix: 262
• six remedies: 268
• three remedies The black poppy eight: 275
• one remedy Hydrolapathum two reme: 287
• in what places it grows best What flowers were: 319
• Fabrics which rival the colour of flowers: 326
• which reproduce themselves The leucanthemum: 334
• The maladies of bees and the remedies for them: 340
• That bees are sensible of hunger: 345
• Four varieties of the nettle The lamium and the scorpio: 351
• The perdicium The ornithogale: 357
• Plants which blossom three times in the year: 359
• Seventeen remedies derived from the violet: 368
• Twentytwo remedies derived from the abrotonum: 377
• Six remedies derived from the anthyllium or anthyllum: 383
• The stæbe or pheos: 401
• eleven: 407
• twelve remedies: 413
• thirtynine remedies: 432
• three remedies: 438
• six remedies: 444
• thirtyfive remedies: 452
• The use made of the yeast of zythum: 456
• eight remedies: 463
• twelve remedies: 482
• 139: 485
• sixteen remedies: 490
• five observations upon them: 498
• The natural history of twenty different kinds of plants grown: 505
• thirteen remedies: 521

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4; Bohn's classical library; The Natural History of Pliny, Henry Thomas Riley
• Author: Pliny (the Elder.)
• Translated by: John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley
• Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, 1856
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 25, 2011