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The new gardener's dictionary; or whole art of gardening, fully and accurately displayed. Containing the most approved methods of cultivating all kings of trees, plants, and flowers ... / Arranged under the English proper name of each article. By John Dicks ... assisted by many eminent in the profession.
Dicks, John, active 1769-1771.Date: 1771- Books
The botany of beer : an illustrated guide to more than 500 plants used in brewing / Giuseppe Caruso ; foreword by Marika Josephson ; translated by Kosmos, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Caruso, Giuseppe, 1965-Date: [2022]- Books
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The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, Chirurgical Instruments, and their Use, are accurately described. As also the names and virtues of medicinal plants, Minerals, Stones, Gums, Salts, Earths, &c. The Method of chusing the best Drugs: The Terms of Chymistry, and of the Apothecary's Art: The various Forms of Medicines, and the ways of compounding them. By Stephen Blancard, M. D. Professor of Physick at Middleburg in Zealand.
Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
A complete dictionary of practical gardening: comprehending all the modern improvements. In the art; whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting, gardens and pleasure grounds: with correct engravings ... from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards / By Alexander McDonald [pseud].
Dickson, R. W.Date: 1807- Books
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Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair.
Blair, Patrick, -1728.Date: 1723[-28]- Books
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The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments, and their use, are accurately described. Also The Names and Virtues of Medicinal Plants, Minerals, Stones, Gums, Salts, Earths, &c. And the Method of chusing the best Drugs: The Terms of Chymistry, and of the Apothecaries Art; and the various Forms of Medicines, and the ways of Compounding them. By Stephen Blancard, M. D. Physick-Professor at Middleburg in Zealand.
Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.Date: 1708- Books
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The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments, and their use are accurately describ'd. Also The Names and Virtues of Medicinal Plants, Minerals, Stones, Gums, Salts, Earths, &c. And the Method of choosing the best Drugs: The Terms of Chymistry, and of the Apothecaries Art; and the various Forms of Medicines, and the ways of Compounding them. By Stephen Blancard, M. D. Physick-Professor at Middleburg in Zealand.
Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.Date: 1702- Books
The plant in creative and industrial art / edited by Martin Gerlach ; theory of style by A. Seder ; preface by A. Ilg.
Date: [1887-]- Books
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Eden: or, a compleat body of gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of a long experience. Together with the culture of all kinds of flowers, according to the methods of the English, French, and Dutch florists. And the knowledge of curious plants, after the system of Linnaeus. With figures and descriptions of the flowers and plants proper for a garden, including the care and culture of the pleasure-garden. The business of the seminary for every week in the year. Catalogues and accurate descriptions of the fruits as they come into season; and new and practical directions for the management of fruit-trees. With the best methods of culture for the several articles of the kitchen-garden: and the compleat management of the ground for raising them, in the natural and artificial manner. Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the compleat body of husbandry. And comprehending the art of constructing a garden for use and pleasure; the best methods of keeping it in order: and the most perfect accounts of its several products.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757] [1756-57]- Books
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An Entertaining account of all the countries of the known world: Describing the different religions, habits, tempers, customs, traffick, and manufactures, of their inhabitants; the remarkable curiosities, amongst them, either of art, or nature; the great variety of strange land and sea-animals; extraordinary plants, minerals, &c. Adorn'd, occasionally, with cuts of the habits of the several people, uncommon animals, ceremonies, buildings, &c. All curiously engraved.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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An Entertaining account of all the countries of the known world: Describing the different religions, habits, tempers, customs, traffick, and manufactures, of their inhabitants; the remarkable curiosities, amongst them, either of art, or nature; the great variety of strange land and sea-animals; extraordinary plants, minerals, &c. Adorn'd, occasionally, with cuts of the habits of the several people, uncommon animals, ceremonies, buildings, &c. All curiously engraved.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Biological atlas : a guide to the practical study of plants and animals; adapted to the requirements of the London University, Science and Art Department, and for use in schools and colleges with accompanying text containing arrangement and explanation, equivalent terms, glossary and classification / by D. M'Alpine and A. N. M'Alpine.
McAlpine, Daniel.Date: 1880- Books
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A nevv herbal, or historie of plants : wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundry kinds, their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those which are here growing in this our country of Engalnd [sic], but of all others also of forraine realmes commonly vsed in physicke. First set forth in the Dutch or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquire.
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585Date: 1619- Books
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An entertaining account of all the countries of the known world. Describing the different religions, habits, Tempers, Customs, Traffick, and Manufactures. of their inhabitants; the Remarkable Curiosities, amongst Them, either of Art, or Nature; The great Variety of strange Land and Sea-Animals; extraordinary Plants, Minerals, &c. adorn'd, occasionally, with cuts of the Habits of the several People, uncommon Animals, Ceremonies, Buildings, &c. all curiously engraved.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]-55- Books
Vanajyotsnā-sahastrasaumanasī = Vanajyotsnā-sahasrasaumanasī : Flora & plant kingdom in Sanskrit literature / editor, Abha Kulshreshtha ; asst. editor, Anju Bala ; managing editor, Jagan Nath ; [principal investigators & editors, Sushma Kulshreshtha, Jagadish Sahai].
Date: 2003- Books
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A new herball, or historie of plants : wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier.
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585Date: 1595- Books
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A new herball, or historie of plants : wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of all others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Douch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquire.
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585Date: 1586- Books
The medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygeine [sic], or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington, and the diseases wich sprung from that most deplorable disaster / [James Ewell].
Ewell, James, 1773-1832.Date: 1816- Books
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The physical dictionary : Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd. : Also the names and virtues of medicinal plants, minerals, stones, gums, salts, earths, &c. and the method of choosing the best drugs : the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecaries art ; and the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them. / By Stephen Blancard M.D. Physick-Professsor at Middleburg in Zealand.
Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702Date: 1693- Digital Images
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Chloroplasts are found in the cells of plants that conduct photosynthesis. They absorb sunlight and use it along with water and carbon dioxide gas (CO2) to produce food for the plant.
Odra Noel- Books
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Plantae utiliores ; or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine / [M.A. Burnett].
Burnett, M. A., Miss.Date: 1840-1850- Books
Five hundred Indian plants, their use in medicine and the arts = Sahasrārdha v rkṣādigaḷa varṇane.
Date: 1881- Books
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The country man's treasure: Shewing the nature, causes, and cure of all diseases incident to cattle, viz. bulls, oxen, cows, calves, horses, mares, colts, asses, sheep, swine, and goats. With proper means to prevent their common diseases and distempers: being useful receipts, as they have been practised by long experience of above forty years, and also approved. Together with plain rules and methods for improving arable and pasture-lands: the management, improvement, and preservation of fruit trees, plants and flowers, the manner of fruit trees, plants and flowers, the manner of ordering flax, hemp, saffron and licorish: with directions for encreasing and preserving of bees. To which is added the art of hawking, hunting, angling, and the noble recreation of ringing. By J. Lambert, gent.
Lambert, James.Date: [1715?]- Books
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Bibliotheca technologica: or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences. Viz. I. Theology; or the First Principles of Natural Religion. II. Ethics, or Morality; the Doctrine of Moral Virtues. III. Christianity; or the Substance of the Christian Religion. IV. Judaism; or the Religion and State of the Jews. V. Mahometanism; or the Life, Religion, and Polity of Mahomet. VI. Gentilism; or the Deities and Religion of the Heathen. Vii. Mythology; or an Explanation of Fabulous Histories. Viii. Grammar and Language, particularly of the English Tongue. IX. Rhetoric and Oratory; or the Art of Speaking eloquently. X. Logic; or the Art of Reasoning and persuasion. XI. Ontology; or the Science of Being abstractedly considered. XII. Poetry; or the Art of making Verses or Poems. XIII. Criticism; or Art of judging well of Men and Things. XIV. Geography; or a Description of the World. XV. Chronology; or the Doctrine of Time. XVI. History; with the Original of Nations and Kingdoms. XVII. Physiology; or Science of Natural Philosophy. XVIII. Botany; or the Doctrine of Plants and Vegetables. XIX. Anatomy; or a Description of the Parts of an Human Body. XX. Pharmacy; or the Art of making Medicines. XXI. Medicine; or the Theory of Physic and Diseases. XXII. Polity and Oeconomics; or the Doctrine of Society and Government. XXIII. Jurisprudence; or the Knowledge of Law or Right. XXIV. Heraldry; or Art of Blazoning Coat-Armour. XXV. Miscellanies: An Account of the Mathematical Arts and Sciences. By Benj. Martin, Author of The Philosophical Grammar, &c.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- 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