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Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada / by Charles Francis Saunders, illustrated by photographs, and by numerous line drawings, by Lucy Hamilton Aring.
Saunders, Charles Francis, 1859-1941.Date: 1920- Archives and manuscripts
Smith, Captain F to Francis Galton
Date: Oct 1895-Feb 1898Reference: GALTON/2/5/10/3/1Part of: Galton Papers- Books
Wild plants for a sustainable future : 110 multipurpose species / edited by Tiziana Ulian, César Flores, Rafael Lira, Avhatakali Mamatsharaga, Kebadire K. Mogotsi, Patrick Muthoka, Samodimo Ngwako, Desterio O. Nyamongo, William Omondi, Abdoul K. Sanogo, Sidi Sanogo and Efisio Mattana.
Date: 2019- Books
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A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings, taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, active 1737.Date: M.D.CC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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A curious herbal. Containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings, taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, active 1737.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in phsick. ...
Blackwell, Elizabeth, active 1737.Date: 1782- Books
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The family herbal. Or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience / by Sir John Hill. Embellished with one hundred and fifty coloured plants.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: [1840?]- Books
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A new and compleat body of practical botanic physic, from the medicinal plants of the vegetable kingdom ... With useful observations and improvements, necessary regimen and diet, under all diseases. Vol. I / [Edward Baylis].
Baylis, EdwardDate: 1791- Books
Peter Collinson and the eighteenth-century natural history exchange / Jean O'Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean.
O'Neill, Jean, 1915-2008.Date: 2008- Books
The mythology of plants : botanical lore from ancient Greece and Rome / Annette Giesecke.
Giesecke, AnnetteDate: [2014]- Archives and manuscripts
Patten, John to Francis Galton and Edward Galton Wheler-Galton
Date: Sep-Nov 1898Reference: GALTON/2/5/10/1/21Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening. Containing several new experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And also nice and useful Observations relating to the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants; with choice Secrets to make Plants, Flowers and Fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual. With several copper cuts.
Vallemont, abbé de (Pierre Le Lorrain), 1649-1721.Date: 1707- Books
Useful, interesting and entertaining information for all : second issue / Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd.
Date: [1931?]- Books
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The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening; nurseries, plantations and agriculture. Containing The fullest practical Directions for performing all the different Methods of Vegetable Propagation, by which the various Kinds of Plants, Trees, Flowers, Fruits, &c. are raised and increased in the greatest Abundance and Perfection: Now First thoroughly explained. With the Compleatest Botanical Arrangements of all the Species and Varieties of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Corns, Grasses, &c. proper for Cultivation in every District of Gardening, Nurseries, Plantations, Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, and in Fields, all ranged in their proper Genera or Families; with the Universal Botanic, Latin and English Names of the Genera and Species, &c. and in the greater Part, short specific Descriptions, mentioning also their native Places of Growth; the Whole according to the latest Modern Improvements of the Linnaean System; comprised in Eight Divisions, viz. I. Kitchen-Garden Plants. II. Fruit Trees. III. Forest and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. IV. Herbaceous, Perennial, and Biennial Flower Plants, &c. V. Annual Flower Plants. VI. Green-House Plants. Vii. Hot-House Plants. Viii. Fields, or Agricultural Plants. The Whole forming a very necessary and useful Companion to all Gardeners, Nursery-Men, Florists, Botanists, Planters, Seeds-Men, Farmers, and every one concerned, either in the Cultivation, or Oeconomical Uses, &c. of the Vegetable Kingdom. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener. In two volumes. ...
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1784- Books
The botany of beer : an illustrated guide to more than 500 plants used in brewing / Giuseppe Caruso ; foreword by Marika Josephson ; translated by Kosmos, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Caruso, Giuseppe, 1965-Date: [2022]- Books
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Flora rustica: exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder, Botanic Painter to Her Majesty, and coloured under his inspection. With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn, B. D. and F. R. S. Fellow of the Linnaean Society, and Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. ...
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: [1792]-94 [1791-95]- Books
The cyclopædia of useful and ornamental plants used in the arts, medicine, and for ornament : with a scientific and popular description of each plant, and an account of its uses and modes of culture interspersed with anecdotes and numerous coloured engravings / by the late Gilbert Thomas Burnett ; revised and edited by Roderick Elphinstone.
Burnett, Gilbert T. (Gilbert Thomas), 1800-1835.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Books
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A new family herbal, or, a description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man ... compiled from the works of Hill ... and other botanists. Fourth edition ... To which is now added an entire new supplement ... [etc.].
Brook, Richard.Date: [c.1850]- Books
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The useful family-herbal, or, an account of all those English plants which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience ... / by Sir John Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1789- Books
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The pasteurization of milk from the practical viewpoint : a handbook relating to the installation, operation and control of pasteurizing plants / Useful to milk dealers, students in dairy schools, public officials having control of milk handling, and of interest to the general public, by Chas. H. Kilbourne.
Kilbourne, Charles Herbert, 1867-Date: 1916- Books
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The British herbal, Containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants which blow in the open air of Great Britain, accurately coloured from nature, with their botanical characters, and a short account of their cultivation, &c. &c. By John Edwards. The whole corrected according to the latest editions of botany.
Edwards, John, 1742-Date: M,DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
The family herbal. Or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience / By Sir John Hill. Embellished with fifty-four coloured plates.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: [1820?]- Books
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The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker.
Bowker, Pierpont F.Date: 1851- Books
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A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, / compiled from the works of Hill, Woodville, Don, Withering, and other botanists, by Richard Brook.
Brook, Richard, active 19th century.Date: [1853?]- Books
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A new and valuable book, entitled the Family companion : containing many hundred rare and useful receipts, on every branch of domestic economy : embracing cookery, the cure of diseases, the properties and use of the principal plants as medicine, housewifery, dying, coloring, cleaning, purifying, cementing, &c. / by J.R. Wells.
Wells, J. R.Date: 1846