BOOK XIV

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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.

1 and 2. The nature of the vine. Its mode of fructification 215

3. The nature of the grape, and the cultivation of the vine 218

4. Ninety-one varieties of the vine 222

5. Remarkable facts connected with the culture of the vine 233

6. The most ancient wines 236

7. The nature of wines 238

8. Fifty kinds of generous wines 239

9. Thirty-eight varieties of foreign wine 245

10. Seven kinds of salted wines 247

11. Eighteen varieties of sweet wine. Raisin-wine and hepsema 248

12. Three varieties of second-rate wine 251

13. At what period generous wines were first commonly made in Italy 251

14. The inspection of wine ordered by King Romulus 252

15. Wines drunk by the ancient Romans 253

16. Some remarkable facts connected with wine-lofts. The Opimian wine 254

17. At what period four kinds of wine were first served at table _ib._

18. The uses of the wild vine. What juices are naturally the coldest of all 255

19. Sixty-six varieties of artificial wine 256

20. Hydromeli, or melicraton 261

21. Oxymeli _ib._

22. Twelve kinds of wine with miraculous properties 262

23. What wines it is not lawful to use in the sacred rites 263

24. How must is usually prepared _ib._

25. Pitch and resin 264

26. Vinegar—lees of wine 268

27. Wine-vessels—wine-cellars _ib._

28. Drunkenness 270

29. Liquors with the strength of wine made from water and corn 274

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