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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]- Books
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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- Pictures
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Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 11 May 1799Reference: 25554i- Books
Mr Cube's roots : the story of sugar / Tate & Lyle Ltd.
Tate & Lyle (Firm)Date: [1962?]- Pictures
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Left, table of ancient Greek measures; right, the leaves, seed and roots of the Asa foetida plant. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 47729i- Books
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The gentleman and lady's gardner; Containing the modern method of cultivating the kitchen and flower-garden, with a general catalogues of seeds, plants, and roots, for improving of land, feeding of cattle, &c. With the Latin names to each plant, according to the linnăn system of botany. To which is added, A catalogue of bulbous-rooted flowers, and their prices. Sold by Robert Edmeades, seedsman, No. 11, opposite the monument, Fish-Street-Hill, London.
Edmeades, Robert.Date: Published April the 4th, 1776- Pictures
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A plant with creeping tuberous root and large globose fruit. Watercolour.
Reference: 23084i- Pictures
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Source of Lopez Root (Toddalia asiatica Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16078i- Pictures
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A flowering plant stem,, a bunch of yellow fruit and a seedling with tap root. Watercolour.
Reference: 23383i- Books
Changes quietly taking root in botany's secret gardens / David Jobbins.
Jobbins, David.Date: 1978- Pictures
A plant with three rooting bulbils, one of which bears an erect leafy stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 23112i- Books
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An idea of a phytological history propounded : together with a continuation of the anatomy of vegetables, particularly prosecuted upon roots : and an account of the vegetation of roots grounded chiefly thereupon / by Nehemiah Grew.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712Date: 1673- Books
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Beiträge zur Theorie des Wurzeldrucks / von W. Detmer.
Detmer W. (Wilhelm), 1850-1930.Date: 1877- Pictures
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Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 30 June 1802Reference: 24238i- Pictures
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Five roots of different forms: spindle-shaped (carrot), fibrous (grass), beet-shaped (radish), tuberous (water hemlock), and onion-shaped (onion). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
Ruprecht, H.J.Date: [1877]Reference: 27052iPart of: Pflanzenreich- Pictures
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A plant (Cyperus species): rootstock with young shoot. Aquatint.
Reference: 20437i- Pictures
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Trunk and roots of a pine tree cut to show growth rings; microscopic views of wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and of a root tip. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
Ruprecht, H. J.Date: [1877]Reference: 27043iPart of: Pflanzenreich- Pictures
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Cassava or tapioca plant (Manihot esculenta): leafy stem and tuberous roots. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809.
Date: 12 June 1809Reference: 25541i- Pictures
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A plant, possibly a Roscoea species: flowers, leaves and roots. Watercolour.
Reference: 23108i- Pictures
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A plant, possibly a Roscoea species: flowers, leaves and roots. Watercolour.
Reference: 23109i- Pictures
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A Solomon's seal plant (Polygonatum species): flowering stem, root and fruit cluster. Watercolour.
Reference: 23087i- Pictures
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A plant, possibly a Roscoea species: flowering and leafy stems with thick, fleshy roots. Watercolour.
Reference: 23106i