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The text compiles practical and encyclopedic guidance on crop cultivation and plant uses, beginning with cereals and farm management — types of grain, sowing and harvesting schedules, ploughing, seed selection, storage, and maladies — plus weather and stellar prognostics for agricultural timing. It proceeds to flax and garden plants, detailing varieties, planting and processing methods, garden layout, and pest and disease remedies. The final section assembles medicinal preparations and numerous remedies derived from vegetables and herbs, listing applications and recipes for treating ailments using garden-grown plants.
Of a similar nature, too, is the vegetable production known in the province of Cyrenaica by the name of “misy,”881 remarkable for the sweetness of its smell and taste, but more fleshy than the truffle: the same, too, as to the iton882 of the Thracians, and the geranion of the Greeks.