The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Part 2
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The Fall of the Leaves and the Poppy Varo
The fall of the leaves, earlier in one place and later in another, is a sure criterion of the temperature of the weather. The Guminous Plants and the Poppy Varo has given no other sign but this for our guidance on the attacks of slugs. Some say however that if wanted for fodder they may be sown at these periods, but if foreseed in the spring. Cato gives the following advice burn upon land where corn has been grown, the twigs and branches which are of no use to you, and when that is done so the poppy there.
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