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Planters Foods Limited : manufacturers of margarine, compound, edible fats, refined oils, and other high-class food preparations : registered office & works, Brombro Port, Cheshire.
Planters Foods Limited.Date: 1926- Books
Margarine and the vitamin problem / Planters Foods Limited.
Planters Foods Limited.Date: [1925?]- Books
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An appeal to the British hop-planters. By S. F. Waddington.
Waddington, S. Ferrand (Samuel Ferrand), 1759-Date: 1800- Books
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Georgical essays: in which the food of plants is particularly considered. And a new compost recommended upon the principles of vegetation.
Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.Date: 1769- Books
Generations gardening together : sourcebook for intergenerational therapeutic horticulture / Jean M. Larson, Mary Hockenberry Meyer.
Larson, Jean M.Date: [2006]- Books
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The theory and practice of the drill-husbandry; founded upon philosophical principles, and confirmed by experienf [sic]. Containing I. A dissertation on the natural food of plants. ... VI. Full directions for making several kinds of horse and hand hoes, ... Illustrated ... By William Amos.
Amos, William, -1824.Date: 1794- Books
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Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds. ... Illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes; their nests and eggs, food, favourite plants, shrubs, trees, &c. &c. Faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature ... By James Bolton.
Bolton, James (Naturalist)Date: 1794-96- Books
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The horse-Hoing husbandry; compleat in four parts: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein, Among many Curious and Useful Improvements, the following are treated of; Viz. 1. Of Roots. 2. Of Leaves. 3. Of Food of Plants. 4. Of Pasture of Plants. 5. Of Dung. 6. Of Tillage. 7. Of Hoing. 8. Of Weeds. 9. Of Turneps. 10. Of Wheat. 11. Of Smuttiness. 12. Of Blight. 13. Of St. Foin. 14. Of Lucerne. 15. Of Change of Species. 16. Of Change of Individuals. 17. Of Plows. 18. Of Drill-Boxes. 19. Of the Turnep-Drill. 20. Of the Ho-Plow, &c. AS Also, A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product, and diminish the common Expence; By the Use of Instruments described in Cuts. The second edition. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne in the County of Berks, Esq;
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Archives and manuscripts
William Ransom and Sons Limited (est.1846)
William Ransom & Son plc (est.1846), manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and grower of crude drugsDate: c.1850-1960Reference: SA/WRS- Books
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A tour through the animal world, or, an historical and accurate account of near four hundred animals, birds, fishes, Serpents, Infects, &c. Describing their different Natures, Qualities and Use, as well for the common Service and Food of Man, as his Diversion and Cure of his Maladies. Extracted from Gesner, Willoughby, Swammerdam, Mousset, Merian, and others, the most celebrated Authors upon this Subject. To which is added, a description of some of the most rare and curious productions of the Vegetable world. The most enriched with an entire new set of copper. plates, representing each Quadrupede, Bird, Fish, Insects and Plant. By the Chevalier Denis de Coetlogon, M. D. Knight, of St. Lazare, and Member of the Royal Academy of Angers.
De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.Date: 1746- Books
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A course of experimental agriculture: containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and new methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly clover, lucerne, sainfoine, burnet, &c. in the broad-cast, drilling, and transplanting methods; and their uses in feeding several sorts of cattle. The culture of madder. A particular comparison between the old and new husbandry. The management of pasture lands. On ploughing, harrowing, and other operations of tillage, relative to the season, number, depth, &c. On the general feeding and fattening of cattle on various articles of food; the expences, profit, quantity eat, &c. The implements of husbandry, their defects, improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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The farmer's director; or, a compendium of English husbandry. Concisely describing the management of land, and cultivating the several kinds of corn and pulse. Of grasses and plants for the food of cattle, and their several feeding qualities. Of meadows and pastures, and a new system of applying the grass-lands of a farm. With various improvements interspersed through the work. Also an appendix. Containing general observations and directions on various subjects of husbandry. Such as difference of soils, and the manner of treating them. Of the cattle necessary for different farms. Of the improvement of heath lands and marshes. Of the manner of improving a new farm. Of the servants necessary, and the various implements of husbandry. Of the expence of stocking, &c. &c. By Thomas Bowden, of the county of Kent.
Bowden, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain. With descriptions of the genera and species, According to the System of the celebrated Linnaeus. Being an Attempt to render them familiar to those who are unacquainted with the Learned Languages. Under each species are added, The most remarkable Varieties, the Natural Places of Growth, the Duration, the Time of Flowering, the Peculiarities of Structure, the common English Names; the Names of Gerard, Parkinson, Ray and Bauhine. The uses as medicines, or as poisons; as food for Men, for Brutes, and for Insects. With their Applications in oeconomy and in the arts. With an easy introduction to the study of botany. Shewing The Method of investigating plants, and Directions how to Dry and Preserve Specimens. The whole Illustrated by Copper Plates and a copious Glossary. By William Withering, M.D. In two volumes.
Withering, William, 1741-1799.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The family magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery Particularly Shewing How to Buy-in the Best of all Sorts of Provisions; As Poultry-Ware, Butchers-Meat, Fish, Fruit, &c. With several Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Confectionary, Distilling, Brewing, Cosmeticks, &c. Together with the Art of Making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick; explaining the virtues and properties of all sorts of meats, drinks, Herbs, Plants, Roots, Seeds, &c. used either as Food or Physick. And succinctly Treating of All the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Men, Women, and Children: with Practical Rules and Directions for the Preserving and Restoring of Health, and Prolonging of Life. As also how to make all Kinds of Balsams, Salves, Ointments, Elixirs, Cordials, Diet-Drinks, Syrups, Electuaries, Powders, &c. In a Method intirely New and Intelligible; in which every Disease is rationally and practically considered, in its several Stages and Changes; and approved Recipe's inserted under every Distemper, in Alphabetical Order. Being principally the Common-Place Book of a late able Physician, by which he successfully, for many Years, regulated his Practice. To which is Added, An Explanation of such Terms of Art used in the Work, as could not be so easily reduced to the Understanding of common Readers.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The family magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery. Particularly Shewing How to Buy-in the Best of all Sorts of Provisions; As Poultry-Ware, Butchers-Meat, Fish, Fruit, &c. With several Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Confectionary, Distilling, Brewing, Cosmeticks, &c. Together with the Art of Making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing, a compendious body of physick; explaining the virtues and properties of all sorts of meats, drinks, Herbs, Plants, Roots, Seeds, &c. used either as Food or Physick. And succinctly Treating of All the Diseases and Accidents incident to Men, Women and Children: With Practical Rules and Directions for the Preserving and Restoring of Health and Prolonging of Life. As also how to make All Kinds of Balsams, Salves, Ointments, Elixirs, Cordials, Diet-Drinks, Syrups, Electuaries, Powders, &c. In a Method intirely New and Intelligible; in which every Disease is rationally and practically considered, in its several Stages and Changes; and approved Recipe's inserted under every Distemper, in Alphabetical Order. Being principally the Common-Place Book of a late able Physician, by which he successfully, for many Years, regulated his Practice. To which is Added, An Explanation of such Terms of Art used in the Work, as could not be so easily reduced to the Understanding of common Readers. The third edition, revised, corrected, and greatly inlarged. To which is prefixed, a brief account of the great efficacy of tar-water in most Distempers; Directions for Making it, &c.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain. A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And a postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: Together with The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British League and Confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the States of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Legislative Independence, we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory of, Great-Britain. It is not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it finds its own Account in it, and cannot help itself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw Milk from them, or can provide themselves with better Food; nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their great Grand-Mothers were acquainted. This is the Course of human Affairs, and all wise States will always have it before their Eyes. Trenchard on Plantations and Colonies, in Cato's Letters, No. 106. Anno 1722.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Ephemera
Slimming ephemera. Box 1.
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Board Meeting Papers
Date: Jan 1961Reference: WF/C/E/01/402/1Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Wellcome Trust; 1936-Date: 1910-2022Reference: WT- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd