CONTENTS. Vll 



Chap. I'^Kf 



76. The theory of the winds .. 113 



77. The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind . . 114 



78. Prognostics derived from the sun 11" 



79. Prognostics derived from the moon 119 



80. Prognostics derived from the stars 120 



81. Prognostics derived from thunder I'-^l 



82. Prognostics derived from clouds i^>- 



83. Prognostics derived from mists 122 



84. Prognostics derived from fire kindled hy man th. 



85. Prognostics derived from water <^- 



86. Prognostics derived from tempests 123 



87. Prognostics derived from aquatic animals and birds ih. 



88. Prognostics derived from quadrupeds 1. .. 124 



89. Prognostics derived ft-om plants 125 



90. Prognostics derived from food H'- 



BOOK XIX. 



THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS 

 GARDEN PLANTS. 



1. The nature of flax — marvellous facts relative thereto 129 



2. How flax is sown : twenty-seven principal varieties of it .. .. 131 



3. The mode of preparing fiax 135 



4. Linen made of asbestos 136 



5. At what period linen was first dyed 13S 



6. At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the 



theatres lb. 



7. The nature of spartura 139 



8. The mode of preparing spartura 140 



.9. At what period spartum was first employed 141 



10. The bulb eriophorus ib. 



11. Plants which spring up and grow without a root — plants which 



grow, but cannot be reproduced from seed 142 



12. Misy; iton; and geranion 143 



13. Particulars connected with the truffle 144 



14. The pezica ib. 



15. Laserpitium, laser, and maspetum ih. 



16. Magydaris 147 



17. Madder 148 



18. The radicula ib. 



19. The pleasures of the garden 149 



20. The laying out of garden ground 154 



21. Plants other than grain and shrubs 155 



22. The natural history of twenty difi'erent kinds of plants grown in 



gardens — the proper methods to be followed in sowing them 



respectively ib. 



