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  • Four flowering and fruiting plants: black bryony, herb Paris, common asparagus and butchers broom. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come to buy and is holding some money in her hand. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • The complete art of cookery, exhibited in a plain and easy manner. With directions for marketing, the season of the year for butchers' meat, poultry, fish, &c. : embellished with engravings, shewing the art of trussing, carving, etc. etc. etc / by Mrs. Glasse.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Row of butcher shops in Kabul
  • Indian butcher selling meat to some customers. Gouache drawing.
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • A Chinese butcher. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.