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PLINY :
NATURAL HISTORY
BOOK XII
INTRODUCTION
THIS volume contains Books XII–XVI of Pliny’s Naturalis Historia Natural History. Their subject is trees and vines.
The detailed contents will be found in Pliny’s outline of the work, which, with lists of the authorities used for each Book, forms the contents of Book I. For Books XII–XVI, see Volume I, pp. 65–80, of this edition.
Book XII deals with trees: their various qualities.
Book XIII gives foreign trees and their use in supplying scent, fruit, paper, and wood.
Book XIV discusses vine-growing and varieties of wine.
Book XV: Olives, olive-oil, and fruit-trees.
Book XVI: Forest trees, their nature and varieties; their value for timber and other commodities. Longevity of trees. Parasitic plants.
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