Geōponika: Agricultural Pursuits, Volume 1

author, 1805 - Agriculture - 639 pages

Contents

• Concerning the wine press and the vats and the oil press Florentinus: 1
• Concerning the wine cellar and the standing for the casks The same: 2
• Concerning the making of the casks Anutolius: 3
• Chap 1 CONCERNING the Year and the division of: 4
• In the month of: 5
• In the month of June: 6
• General precepts about pitching Florentinus: 7
• Another approved method of pitching The same: 8
• Concerning the stopping of casks Varro: 9
• Concerning the preparation for the yintage Didymus: 10
• That it is not proper to plant mixed kinds of vines: 15
• How one may cure wine beginning to turn sour Taren tinus: 16
• That wine carried over sea may be durable Diophanes: 17
• How you are to manage the vines that they may pro duce sweet wine Didymus: 18
• Prescience of events from thunder every year after: 19
• To make wellflavoured and sweet wine Pamphilus: 20
• To make white wine black and black wine white Varro: 21
• To fine wine Fronto: 22
• To make wine strong for mixing with water so that a little of it when taken may be sufficient for many per sons Paxamus: 23
• To make new wine appear old Damogeron: 24
• That wine may have no yeast Sotion: 25
• To amend the watery taste of wine Apuleius: 26
• be adapted: 27
• To stop the fermentation of wines that are feculent and turbid Anatolius: 28
• To make wine appear turbid Africanus: 29
• That a person drinking wine may not smell of it: 30
• Concerning hail: 31
• Preparation of the best sapa Leontinus: 32
• Preparation of different sorts of vinegar and how one may make wine into vinegar Varro: 33
• Vinegar made without wine: 34
• Concerning beans The same: 35
• Concerning chiche peas Eps6ular Florentinus: 36
• Concerning lentil The same: 37
• Of finding water Puxamus: 38
• Concerning lupines The same: 39
• Concerning all kinds of pulse and concerning hemp and flax The Quintilii: 40
• That the pulse that are sown may boil well Demo critus: 41
• Concerning the lions tail which they also call orobanche Sotion: 42
• By what plants others are injured Paramus: 43
• Concerning water and how rainwater ought to: 52
• Anisites: 55
• A pites: 57
• Concerning the season for sowing wheat and barley: 59
• Concerning the choice of seeds and what the quality: 61
• Concerning manure The Quintilii: 69
• Concerning the granary and the care and preservation: 76
• 6: 77
• Concerning the person who has the care of the farm: 90
• the husbandman Florentinus 45 The husbandman ought to have an ephemeris of each days work and how it is proper that he should: 92
• Concerning proportion of labour The same 47 Concerning the health of the labourers Florentinus: 94
• It is not proper to transfer labourers or plants from more eligible situations into such as are inferior Didymus: 97
• It is expedient to have smiths and artificers and makers of earthen ware on or near the farm Varro: 98
• BOOK III: 99
• In the month of February: 100
• In the month of March: 102
• In the month of April: 104
• Preparation of alica 8 Preparation of tragum: 109
• Preparation of ptisane 10 In the month of July: 110
• In the month of August: 112
• In the month of September: 113
• In the month of October: 114
• In the month of November 15 In the month of December: 116
• BOOK IV: 118
• 2 Another concerning the arbustive vines Africanus 3 How rooted vines may be easily and speedily trans planted Didymus: 122
• Concerning the myrtle grape Tarentinus: 124
• That wasps may not touch vines or grapes or other fruit Democritus 11 How grapes remain on the vine in perfection till the spring Berytius 12 Conce...: 129
• That the same cluster may have different grapestones: 134
• The kinds of vines in what soil you are to plant them: 140
• Concerning the time of planting vines Cassianus: 146
• What day of the moon and whether when it is above: 153
• That it is better not to plant vines of the same sort: 158
• Concerning ablaqueation The same: 164
• Concerning staking Didymus: 170
• Cure for vines the fruit of which becomes dry Vinda: 177
• How it is proper to remedy the grapes that are become sour or otherwise infected and to cure the wine that: 187
• on agriculture and whose treatise con: 199
• What they who have the care of the panniers ought to do and how the grapes are to be trodden and in what manner they who are appointed to tread t...: 206
• How the must is to be poured into the casks after the treading of the grapes is finished Diophanes: 208
• The grapestones being immediately thrown out after the drawing of the must from the press how what is called thamna may be made of them Analoli...: 209
• That new wine may not work over Florentinus 15 To render new wine fit for use The same 16 To have sweet wine all the year and to know whether i...: 210
• To know if must is diluted Sotion 18 Concerning the preparation of gypsum Didymus 19 To aid must that is getting acid Democritus: 212
• BOOK: 214
• Concerning the difference of new and old wine and: 215
• Concerning the proving of wine and must if it: 221
• An admirable preparation for making wines durable: 227
• That a person drinking much wine may not be inebriated The sanke 32 How any one will abstain from having too great a desire for wine Democritus...: 242
• Not only wine but other things make the persons that drink them inebriated Leontinus: 243
• How wine is made without grapes Sotion 36 An infallible preparation of wine that preserves health to old age Vindanionius: 244
• Concerning percolating wines Florentinus: 245
• Glechonites 8 Daphnites 9 Marathrites: 249
• Conyzites 11 Omphakites 12 13 Peganites 14 Telites 15 Hyssopites 16 Selenites Petroselenites: 251
• Wine from apples 18 Preparation of cathartic wine 19 Wine calculated to improve a womans milk and keep ing her from falling into any illness: 252
• Wine for the dysentery and flux of the belly 21 Concerning absinthites: 253
• The making of Aminean wine Didymus: 254
• Preparation of Thasian wine Florentinus 24 Preparation of Coan wine Berytius: 255
• Concerning œnomeli 26 Enomeli from must: 256
• Preparation of hydromel 28 Another preparation of hydromel: 257
• Rhodomelites: 259
• Proof of vinegar whether it is mixed with water 41 How to make a double quantity of vinegar Democritus: 263
• To make squillvinegar Pythagoras: 264
• BOOK: 266
• Concerning the planting and care of olives and that a due attention to these is of the greatest advantage: 267
• Concerning a nursery Didymus: 270
• Concerning trenches for the planting of olives The same 7 Of what sort the oliveplants to be set ought to be The same 8 To make an olivetree fertile ...: 274
• How one may make olivetrees flourish and produce plenty of fruit and how one may cure them when they are decaying The Quintilii: 277

Popular passages

Page 128 - All ancient writers agree that scions of one genus may be engrafted on stocks of another. Florentinus says, " if you graft the vine on the cherry, you will have very early grapes ; for, at the season in which the cherry-tree has been accustomed to produce its own fruit, it will, at the same period, afford grapes — that is, in the spring.

Page 16 - Leo, there will be an abundant crop of corn, and plenty of oil and wine, and all provisions will be cheap. There will be tumults and slaughter, and the appearance of a king, and uncertain weather; and one nation will invade another, and there will be earthquakes and inundations : but being in Virgo, there will be abundance of rain, joy, death pf women in childbed ; slaves and four-footed beasts will be cheap.

Page 17 - Aquarius, the dissolution of a tyrant will happen, the wheat will be injured ; there will be an incursion of locusts, and little rain, and pestilential diseases : if it rises when the Moon is in Pisces, there will be plenty of rain, and destruction to the feathered race ; and there will be plenty of wine and corn, but disease among the human race.

Page 17 - Sagittarius, there will be a plentiful year, and many showers, and abundance of corn, and joy to the human race, but havock in the herd, and a plentiful increase of the feathered tribe : if it rises when the Moon is in...

Page 174 - There is likewise a certain antipathy, if the skin of a seal is perforated and stretched round a sieve, and the seed is caused to pass through the sieve, and the ground is sown. This same thing likewise precludes hail from falling, affording relief by some natural antipathy.

Page 240 - Thai a person drinking much wine may not be inebriated." "Having roasted the lights of a goat, eat them ; or, when fasting, eat five or seveii bitter almonds; or hrst, eat raw cabbage, and you will not be inebriated.

Page 253 - The Preparation of Coan Wine. * Some boil three parts of must and one of sea water into a third of the quantity ; but others mix with two measures of white vine one cotyla of salt, three cotylae of sapa, one cotyla of must, one cotyla of flour of orobus, one hundred dramsof mclliot, sixteen dram

Page 226 - AN EFFICACIOUS INSCRIPTION, THAT THE WINE MAY NOT TURN * THE wine cannot possibly turn, if you inscribe on the vessel or on the casks these pious words : " Taste1, and see that Jehovah is good ;" and you wiH £ ie when they are not fermenting.

Page 286 - When you then see the olives beginning to exhibit signs of maturity, order the boys or the labourers to gather them from the tree...

Page 252 - Indian leaf, nine drams of melilot, two drams of Indian nard, three drams of cinnamon wood. Some also add four drams of each of these, of myrrh, cassia, crocus. Some use the sweet-scented calamus instead of myrrh..

Bibliographic information

• Title: Geōponika: Agricultural Pursuits, Volume 1; Geōponika: Agricultural Pursuits, Thomas Owen
• Translated by: Thomas Owen
• Publisher: author, 1805
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Mar 18, 2008
• Length: 639 pages