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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 the palm which produces myrobalanum,3056 the most esteemed kind is that grown in Egypt;3057 the dates of which, unlike those of the other kinds, are without stones. Used with astringent wine, they arrest3058 diarrhœa and the catamenia, and promote the cicatrization of wounds.