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Kalendarium universale: or, the gardiner's universal calendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and parterre throughout the year. And Also, Experimental Directions for performing all manner of Works in Gardening, whether relating to Sowing, Planting, Pruning, Herbs, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Evergreens, &c. with the Products of each Month. In a method wholly new. Taking in the whole Business of Gardening and Horticulture.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: 1726
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Succisia pratensis Greene Asteraceae. Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Distribution: Europe, W Asia, Africa. Culpeper (1650), under ‘Herbs’ he writes: ‘Succisa, Morsus diobolo, Devil’s Bit. Inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother [probably uterine spasm or pain], and breaks wind, taketh away the swellings in the mouth, and slimy phlegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world, for those cold swellings of the neck, which the vulgar call the Almonds [lymph nodes] of the neck than this herb bruised and applied to them. Folk lore attribute it as a cure-all which was so successful that the Devil bit off the bottom of the roots when he saw it growing down into Hades. However, the roots show no sign of such damage to support the myth. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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The scotch forcing and kitchen gardener; being a second edition with extensive additions, of the Scotch forcing gardener: comprehending the forcing of asparagus, cucumbers, Cherries, Grapes, Melons, Mushrooms, Nectarines, Peaches, Pine Apples, and Strawberries. Together with the management of the green-house -Culture of Wall and Orchard Fruits-Kitchen Vegetables, Sallads and Herbs. Illustrated with five copperplates; Containing Ten different Designs of Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. on the newest and most improved Constructions. By Walter Nicol, Late Gardener at Wemyss Castle; Author of an ̀̀essay on Gardening,'' drawn up by Desire, and for Consideration of the Board of Agriculture; and Corresponding Member of the Natural History Society of Edinburgh.
Nicol, Walter.Date: 1798- Books
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The way to get wealth, I. Directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine, equal to that of France with their virtues; and to make cyder equal to canary, also to make Wine of all sorts of Herbs, and to make Cyder, Mead, Rum, Rack, Mum, Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butler's-Ale, Brandy, and Cordial Waters, and 40 sorts of Ale, in a Minute; the Mistery of Vintners; curious Physical Receipts; to help the Memory, that you may remember all you read or do; to keep your Cloaths from wet; to make Corn produce a trebble Crop; to make China Varnish and Black Ground for Japan Work to Black Wood and Gild; Directions for Servant Maids of all sorts, and to Dress Fish, Flesh, and Eowl. II. A help to discourse, giving an account of the commodities of all countries, Inventors of Arts and Sciences, of the River Nilus, Gardening, and divers other Curiosities. III. A book of knowledge, necessary for all traders, and other persons, containing Accounts ready cast up, Rates of Carmen, Watermen, and Coachmen, to keep Books of Accompts, make Bills, Bonds, Wills, Receipts; how to recover bad Debts, and compound them; to write Letters; days fortunate to begin Business in; of Sun rising and setting; time of Tide ebbing and flowing; make Strops to set Razors; to make a Chamber that will contain all sorts of Air, and other Rarities. By the author of The way to save wealth, and also of a Thousand notable things. Price of each 1 s. 6 d.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.Date: 1703- Books
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Virtues of British Herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure: the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease: Containing the cures of consumptions by coltsfoot tea, hectic fevers by the daisy, colics by leaves of chamomile, and agues by its flowers. A recommendation of the Bidens cernua to supply the place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the gravel; but not to be had with us. And a case, with all its cicumstances and symptoms, of the hooping-cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. The whole illustrating that important truth, that the plants of our own country will cure all its diseases. To which are added, cautions against the two Othonnas, destructive of sheep. A work intended to be useful to the sick, and to their friends; to private families; and to the charitable, who would help their neighbours. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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Primitive cookery; or the Kitchen Garden display'd. Containing a collection of receipts for preparing a great variety of cheap, healthful and palatable dishes, without either fish, flesh, or fowl; with a bill of fare of Seventy Dishes, that will not cost above Two-Pence each. Likewise Directions for pickling, gathering, and preserving Herbs, Fruits and Flowers; With many other Articles appertaining to the Product of the Kitchen-Garden, Orchard, &c.
Date: [1767]- Books
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Primitive cookery; or the kitchen garden display'd: containing a collection of receipts for preparing a great variety of cheap, healthful and palatable dishes, without either fish, flesh, or fowl. Also To make divers sorts of wholesome and pleasant Liquors from Herbs, Fruits and Flowers, the Growth of England; with their physical Virtues. To which is added, A Bill of Fare of seventy Dishes, which will not cost above two-pence each.
Date: 1767- Books
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The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the second and third parts thereof: adorn'd with proper and elegant cuts. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The eighth edition. Part III. His six books of plants, The First and Second of Herbs. The Third and Fourth of Flowers. The Fifth and Sixth of Trees. Made English by several celebrated hands. With necessary tables, and divers poems of eminent Persons, in praise of the author.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.Date: 1708- Books
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The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the second and third parts thereof. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The tenth edition. Part III. His six books of plants, The First and Second of Herbs, The Third and Fourth of Flowers. The Fifth and Sixth of Trees. Made English by several celebrate hands. With necessary tables, and divers poems of eminent Persons, in praise of the author: and other considerable additions and improvements.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.Date: 1721- Books
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The useful family-herbal; or, an account of all those English plants which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their Descriptions and their Uses, as proved by Experience. Illustrated with figures of the most useful English plants. With an introduction; Containing, I. Directions for the gathering and preserving Roots, Herbs, Flowers, and Seeds. II. The various Methods of preparing these Simples for present Use. III. Receipts for making from them distilled Waters, Conserves, Syrups, and other Forms proper to be in Readiness, and for keeping all the Year. IV. The Ways of making up Electuaries, ..., Draughts; and the other common Forms of Remedies; together with Cautions in the giving them. An d an appendix; Containing a Proposal for the farther seeking into the Virtues of English Herbs, and the Manner of doing it with Ease and Safety. The Whole intended for the Use of Families, and for the Instruction of those who are desirous of relieving the distressed Sick. By Sir John Hill, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Bourdeaux.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the second and third parts thereof, adorn'd with proper and elegant cuts. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The ninth edition. Part III. His six books of plants, The First and Second of Herbs. The Third and Fouth of Flowers. The Fifth and Sixth of Trees. Made English by several celebrated hands. With necessary tables, and divers poems of eminent Persons, in praise of the author: with the author's life, and other considerable additions and improvements.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.Date: 1711- Books
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Kalendarium universale: or the gardeners universal kalendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and Parterre, throughout the Year. Also experimental directions for performing all manner of works in gardening, whether Sowing, Planting, Pruning of Herbs, Flowers, Trecs, Evergreens, &c. With the Product of each Month. Comprising the whole Business in a Method new and regular. The seventh edition, (adapted to the new style.) And a catalogue of those fruit trees and flowers, which are in the greatest Esteem; likewise the best Method of planting Wildernesses and Orchards. By Benj. Whitmill, Sen. and Jun. Gardeners at Hoxton.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: 1765- Books
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Kalendarium universale: or the gardiner's universal Kalendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and parterre throughout the Year. Also Experimental Directions for performing all manner of Works in Gardening, whether Sowing, Planting, Pruning of Herbs, Flowers, Trees, Evergreens, &c. with the Product of each Month. Comprising the whole Business in a Method new and regular. The third edition, with large alterations and improvements. And a Catalogue of those Fruits, Trees, and Flowers which are in the greatest Esteem; likewise, the best Method of planting Wildernesses and Orchards. By Benj. Whitmill, Sen. and Jun. Gardiners at Hoxton.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Astrology improv'd: or, a compendium of the whole art of that most noble science. In five parts wherein I. The many errors of other writers upon this subject are corrected. II. Necessary Rules, Figures and Judgment upon every House, for the better understanding of Horary Questions. III. Astrolo-Physical Judgments upon Diseases, and the best Method of curing them by Herbs; with variety of Receipts Alphabetically digested. IV. True Judgments upon Nativities, and Elections relating to Buying, Selling, Gaming, Racing, Travelling, Love, Marriage, &c. V. A New and most certain Way how to know and judge the Inclination of the Air, and Alteration of the Weather at all Seasons The like not to be found in any other Author. By Richard Ball, student in astrology and physick.
Ball, Richard, astro-mathematicus.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The country housewife, and lady's director, for every month of the year. Both in the Frugal Management of the House, and in the Delights and Profits of the farm. Containing the whole art of cookery, laid down in a great Variety of the Best and Cheapest Receipts for Dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fish, Fowl, Fruits, and Herbs, which are the Productions of a Farm, or any foreign Parts. Likewise The best Methods to be observed in Brewing Malt Liquors, and Making the several Sorts of English Wines. The Arts of Pickling, Preserving, Confectionary, Pastry, &c. &c. Together with a few of the Most approved and efficacious Medicines, proper to be kept in every private Family. Published for the Good of the Public. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1762- Books
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The compleat English gardner: or, a sure guide to young planters and gardners: in three parts. I. Shewing the best Way and Order of Planting and Raising all sorts of Stocks, Fruit-Trees, and Shrubs, with the divers Ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating in their several Seasons. II. How to Order the Kitchen Garden for all sorts of Herbs, Roots, and Sallads. III. The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure, with Variety of Knots, and Wilderness Work, after the best and newest Fashion, all cut in 24 curious Copper-Plates; also the most Approved Ways for Raising all sorts of Flowers, with Directions to Order Arbours, and Hedges in Gardning. The tenth edition. To which is now added, a supplement, Directing how to know what sort of Earth is proper for all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and when 'tis proper to Dung, and when not; Evils in Fruit-Trees how to remedy, to preserve Wall-Fruits; rare Secrets, for want of Knowledge thereof, many chief Plants dye: To know the proper Season for Herbs, Plants, &c. A Supplement to the Flower-Garden, in many rare Curiosities, being Secrets known to few, to order your Choice Plants, Flowers, and make them Flourish, as Oranges, Limons, Aloes, &c. The Season to remove them, and how to order the Stow and Fire-Place, &c. What Greens and Choice Flowers best endure Cold, and when to timely House them. Prognosticks of Observations of the most proper Time to Sow, Set, Plant, &c. Monthly Observations relating to Greens; their Ordering, Preserving, Housing, and to make them Flourish, &c. Monthly Observations throughout the Year, to order the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardning. Begun by Leonard Meager, above Thirty Years a Practioner in the Art of Gardning, and now enlarged by way of supplement, by a lover of this princely diversion, and Profitable Recreation.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: 1704- Books
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The compleat English gardner: or, a sure guide to young planters and gardners: in three parts I. Shewing the best Way and Order of Planting and Raising all sorts of Stocks, Fruit-Trees, and Shrubs, with the divers Ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating in their several Seasons. II. How to Order the Kitchen Garden for all sorts of Herbs, Roots, and Sallads. III. The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure, with Variety of Knots, and Wilderness-Work, after the best and newest Fashion, all cut in 24 curious Copper-Plates; also the most Approved Ways for Raising all sorts of Flowers, with Directions to Order Arbours, and Hedges in Gardning. The eleventh edition. To which is now added, a supplement, Directing how to know what sort of Earth is proper for all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and when 'tis proper to Dung, and when not; Evils in Fruit-Trees how to remedy, to preserve Wall-Fruits; rare Secrets, for want of Knowledge thereof, many chief Plants dye: To know the proper Season for Herbs, Plans, &c. A Supplement to the Flower-Garden, in many rare Curiosities, being Secrets known to few, to order your Choice Plants, Flowers, and make them Flourish, as Oranges, Limons, Aloes, &c. The Season to remove them, and how to order the Stow and Fire-Place, &c. What Greens and Choice Flowers best endure Cold, and when to timely House them. Prognosticks or Observations of the most proper Time to Sow, Set, Plant, &c. Monthly Observations relating to Greens; their Ordering, Preserving, Housing, and to make them Flourish, &c. Monthly Observations throughout the Year, to order the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardning. Begun by Leonard Meager, above Thirty Years a Practitioner in the Art of Gardning, and now enlarged by way of supplement, by a lover of this princely diversion, and Profitable Recreation.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: [1710?]- Books
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The compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy. Shewing, The various Methods of preserving and candying, both dry and liquid, all Kinds of Fruit, Flowers and Herbs; the different Ways of clarifying Sugar; and the Method of Keeping Fruit, Nuts and Flowers fresh and fine all the Year round. Also directions for making Rock-Works and Candies, Biscuits, Rich Cakes, Creams, Custards, Jellies, Whip Syllabubs, and Cheese-Cakes of all Sorts, English Wines of all Sorts, Strong Cordials, Simple Waters, Mead, Oils, &c. Syrups of all Kinds, Milk Punch that will keep twenty Years, Knicknacks and Trifles for Deserts, &c. Likewise, The Art of making Artificial Fruit, with the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, Some Bills of Fare for Deserts for private Families. By H. Glasse, author of the art of cookery.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The complete confectioner; or, housekeeper's guide: to a simple and speedy method of understanding the whole art of confectionary; the various ways of preserving and candying, dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &c. And the Method of keeping them Fresh And Fine All The Year Round; The Different Ways Of Clarifying Sugar; With Directions for making Fruit Pastes, Bomboons, Pastils, Compotes, Fruit Ices, Cream Ices, Marmalades, Jellies, Jams, Cakes, Puffs, Biscuits, Tarts, Custards, Cheesecakes, Sweetmeats, Fritters, Creams, Syllabubs, Blanc-Mange, Flummeries, Ornaments for grand Entertainments, Dragees, Syrups of all Kinds, Nicknacks and Trifles for Desserts, Strong Cordials, Oils, Simple Waters, Milk Punch that will keep 20 Years, and All Sorts of English Wines. Also, the art of making artificial fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for desserts for private families. By Mrs. H. Glass, author of The art of cookery, with considerable additions and corrections, by Maria Wilson.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1800- Books
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The compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy: Shewing, The various Methods of Preserving and Candying, both dry and liquid, all Kinds of Fruit, Flowers and Herbs; the different Ways of Clarifying Sugar; and the Method of Keeping Fruit, Nuts and Flowers fresh and fine all the Year round. Also Directions for making Rock-Works and Candies, Biscuits, Rich Cakes, Creams, Custards, Jellies, Whip Syllabubs, and Cheese-Cakes of all Sorts. English Wines of all Sorts. Strong Cordials, Simple Waters, Mead, Oils, &c. Syrups of all Kinds, Milk Punch, that will keep twenty Yeras. Knicknacks and Trifles for Deserts, &c. Likewise The Art of making Artificial Fruit, with the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, Some Bills of Fare for Deserts for private Families. By H. Glasse, Author of the Art of Cookery. Also, the new art of brewing. By Mr. Ellis.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742] [1762?]- Books
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The complete confectioner: or the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy. Shewing The various Methods of Preserving and Candying, both dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Flowers, and Herbs; The different Ways of Clarifying Sugar; And the Method of Keeping Fruit, Nuts, and Flowers, Fresh and Fine All the Year Round. Also Directions for making Rock-Works and Candies, Biscuits, Rich Cakes, Creams and Ice Creams, Custards, Jellies, Blomonge Whip Syllabubs, and Cheese-Cakes of all Sorts, Sweetmeats, English Wines of all Sorts, Strong Cordials, Simple Waters, Mead, Oils, &c. Syrups of all Kinds, Milk Punch that will keep twenty Years, Knicknacks and Trifles for Deserts, &c. &c. &c. Likewise The Art of making Artificial Fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for deserts for private families. By H. Glasse, Author of the Art of Cookery.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: [1770?]- Books
Culinary and medicinal herbs.
Date: 1951- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and hardy plants. With Instructions for Sowing and Planting. Containing Their Latin and English Names, Culture, Times of Flowering, Colours of Flowers of the most ornamental Kinds; With Remarks, shewing, Which are the tallest Growers, and tenderest Kinds. Seeds of Kitchen-Garden Roots Page 1 Seeds of Sallad Herbs and Greens 1 Garden Beans and Pease 4 Kidney or French Beans 5 Seeds of Medicinal Herbs 5 Seeds of Grasses, &c. 5 Seeds of Annual Flowers 6 Seeds of Biennial Flowers 8 Seeds and Plants of Perennial Flowers 10 Bulbous and Tuberous Flower Roots Page 16 Seeds and Plants of Tall Deciduous Trees 19 Seeds and Plants of Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 21 Seeds and Plants of Ever Green Trees and Shrubs 24 Frailing Shrubby Plants 26 Fruit Trees 27 By John Webb, Seedsman, At the Acorn, near Westminster Bridge, London.
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
Asian herbs / Sudhir Ahluwalia.
Ahluwalia, SudhirDate: [2018]