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A history of mindfulness
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The garden mushroom: its nature and cultivation. A treatise, exhibiting full and plain directions, for producing this desireable plant in Perfection and Plenty, according to the true successful Practice of the London Gardeners. By John Abercrombie, Author of Mawe's Gardener's Kalendar.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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Edible fungi: 19 species, including horse and field mushrooms (Agaricus), morels (Morchella and Helvella) and Boletus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, ca. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.Date: [1827]Reference: 20595i
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A clump of mushrooms and two Chinese artichokes (Stachys affinis). Watercolour.
Reference: 22697i
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Eight fungi, including the fly agaric, chanterelle, Boletus edulis, field mushroom, puff ball, morel, dry-rot and ergot. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 20410i
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The garden mushroom: its nature and cultivation. A treatise / [John Abercrombie].
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806Date: 1779