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A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, Which are propagated for sale by William Burchell, successor to the Late Mr. Christopher Gray, Nursery-man, at Fulham, in Middlesex, deceased.
Burchell, William, approximately 1725-1800.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Videos
Grow your own drugs. Part 2, Flowers.
Date: 2009- Books
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A garland of new songs. Jessie the flower o' Dumblane. O stay my love. Lilies of the calley Sally Roy Dear maid I love thee just like love green grow the rashes, O. Far, far at sea.
Date: [1800?]- Books
The indoor outdoor highest quality marijuana grower's guide / by Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal ; illustrations, Larry Todd.
Frank, Mel, 1944-Date: [1974]- Pictures
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A flowering daffodil (Narcissus tazetta) with large, ornate border. Chromolithograph by O. Jones, 1845.
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.Date: [1845]Reference: 28318iPart of: The gallery of exotic flowers- 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
This book is a plant : how to grow, learn and radically engage with the natural world.
Date: 2022- Books
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Contemplations amongst Vincent's Rocks, near the city of Bristol: In which there is a Description, not only of the said Rocks, and of the Woods, and a peculiar Flower that grows upon and amongst them, but also Of the Hot-Wells, so samed through all the known World. Likewise of the River that runs between the said Rocks, and of Birds and other Animals that inhabit and seed thereon. Some Notice also is taken of the Ships and other Vessels that are almost continually passing and repassing to and from the City of Bristol. - With some Observations that have been made at different Times on board some Ships, whilst they have been waiting for a Wind in Kingsroad. The whole not only entertaining to the Reader, but also tending, thro' the Divine. Blessing, to the Conviction, Conversion, and Comfort of the Redeemed of the Lord; as every Object treated of is attempted to be Spiritualized. By the Rev. John Dolman, Vicar of Chalk in Kent.
Dolman, John, active 1758-1765.Date: 1772- Digital Images
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Allium moly L., Alliaceae. Golden garlic. Bulbous herb. Distribution: Southwest Europe and Northwest Africa. This is not the 'moly' of Homer's Odyssey Book 10 lines 302-6 which describes Mercury giving Ulysses 'Moly', the antidote to protect himself against Circe's poison ''... The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
Carole Reeves- Books
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The jenny wren Part I. Being a choice collection of favourite songs. Containing, 1. Long have I spent my time in vain 2. When forc'd from dear Hebe to go. 3. Since reason and merit, gives santo love. 4. Near London town there grows a flower. 5. On a primofy bank by a murmering stream 6. One morning young Roger accosted me thus. 7. When Jenny the gay I first courted to wed. 8. Go Rose, my Cloe's bosom grace. 9. No Highland Lad nor dear Pantin. 10. Sons of Bacchus let's be gay. 11. As Chloe sat sheller'd and breath'd the cold Air. 12. Leave Neighbours your Work, 13. Ab! why must Words my Flame reveal? 14. Who can Dorinda's beauty view. 15. Oh! what had I ado for to marry. 16. Smile, smile, Britannia, &c. 17. When Fanny I saw as she trip'd, &c 18. When the trees are all bare, not a Leaf to be seen. 19. As Roger the prowman, a lusty young Savain. 20. As I went o'er the weadow, no matter what auy. 21 When I find my sweet Molly alone. 22. The flame of love sincere I felt. 23. Tho[u] sweep to and fro' old iron to find 24. Of all the trades from East to West.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise : the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles.
Coles, William, 1626-1662Date: 1657- Pictures
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A black woman stands in a field with flowers holding a red ribbon above her head with the sun behind; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667016i- Books
Tending the earth, mending the spirit : the healing gifts of gardening / Connie Goldman, Richard Mahler.
Goldman, ConnieDate: 2000- Digital Images
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Lycopus europaeus (Gypsywort)
Rowan McOnegal- Books
Ambrosia altera.
Liberale, Giorgio.Date: [1562?]- Digital Images
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Cannabis Sativa (Hemp)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Ming herbal (painting): Thorn apple
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Cradle and all : women writers on pregnancy and birth / edited by Laura Chester.
Date: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Horticultural [and domestic household]
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: c 1933 - c 1939Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd