Stories
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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Appointments with plants
In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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A graveyard of plants for the people I love
Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.
Catalogue
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Plants of the Bible : a complete handbook to all the plants with 200 full-color plates taken in the natural habitat / Michael Zohary.
Zohary, Michael, 1898-1983.Date: 1982- Books
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Ten practical discourses concerning the four elements, as they relate to the growth of plants. Viz. I. Of the Improvement of Land in general. II. Of the Principles of Water, and the Necessity of it in Vegetation. III. Various Methods relating to the Draining of Lands. IV. Of the several Parts of Plants, and their respective Offices, &c. V. Of the Anatomy and Motion of Juices in Plants. VI. Of the different Ways of propagating Plants. Vii. How to make Plantations, either for Pleasure or Profit. Viii. Rules for Pruning, &c. IX. Of a Kitchen Garden, and the Particular Management of Vines and Figs. X. Of a Flower Garden: With some new Observations relating to Flowers and Exotick Plants. With a collection of new discoveries for the improvement of land, either in the farm or garden. By the late ingenious R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1733- Books
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The gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the conservatory. With An Account of the particular seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732][1731]- Books
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The gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure-gardens, and in the conservatory: with an account of the particular seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants and Trees, that flower in every Month. The fifth edition; with a large index, and an Addition of the Work necessary to be done in the nursery in each Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The gardener's Kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure-Gardens, And in the conservatory: with An Account of the particular seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. The sixth edition; with a large index, and an addition of the Work necessary to be done in the Nursery in each Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]