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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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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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
- Books
Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings / by Asa Gray.
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.Date: [1858], ©1858- Books
Medical and oeconomical botany / By John Lindley.
Lindley, John, 1799-1865.Date: 1849- Archives and manuscripts
Botany Notes
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: MS.8137- Archives and manuscripts
Botany
Date: 1908-1910Reference: MSS.3277-3280Part of: Lillie, Denis Gascoigne (1888-1963), biologist- Books
Botany.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949]