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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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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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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The healthy life beverage book : a compilation, alphabetically arranged, of refreshing, curative, stimulating, and nutritive liquids, comprising fresh fruit and vegetable juices, vegetable broths, cereal drinks, unfired fruit soups, nut milks, plant teas, herbal decoctions, fruit syrups, gum water, &c., with critical notes on water, milk, casein, whey, beef tea, yeast extracts, vinegar, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, &c., also information respecting the nutritive and medicinal properties of all the products referred to / by H. Valentine Knaggs.
Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine), 1858-Date: 1911- Archives and manuscripts
TS Extract from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Date: 1950sReference: PENROSE/2/40/2/11Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Ephemera
Le ricin / Compagnie Liebig.
Date: [1907]- Ephemera
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Fleurs odorantes : cueillette des oeillets alpins / Compagnie Liebig.
Date: [1911]- Ephemera
Le camphrier / Compagnie Liebig.
Date: [1907]