Stories
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What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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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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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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A catalogue of fruit and forest trees, Flowering shrubs and evergreens, hot-house and green-house plants, new garden flower and grass seed, flower roots, garden tools, bassmatts, asparagus, cabbage cauliflower, and artichoke plants, &c. &c. By Burnett and Foley, at their nursery and seed Ware-House, Richmond, near Dublin.
Burnett and Foley (Dublin, Ireland)Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: where by the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs, from their parts: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by successful and repeated Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire. From Experiments proposed by Dr. Hill.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]