Stories
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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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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.
Catalogue
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The experimental husbandman and gardener: containing a new method of improving estates and gardens, By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. With Great Variety of New Discoveries relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit. With several New Experiments for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Agricola, Georg Andreas, 1672-1738.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines-of all sorts. Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of butt[e]r and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other [u]seful Branches belonging to a Country-Seat, in the most elegant manner for the Table. Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces. The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year. With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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Address to the public, on the principles of medical botany : with an enumeration of the herbs; and retail price list of herbs, roots, barks, and compounds, used in the botanic practice, as introduced into England by Dr. Coffin / issued by J. Nadin, medical botanist ... [etc.].
Nadin, Joseph.Date: 1852- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy, Midwifery, Alchemy, Botany
Date: c.1840Reference: MS.9133- Books
Unearthed : photography's roots.
Date: 2020
