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A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, Which are propagated for sale by William Burchell, successor to the Late Mr. Christopher Gray, Nursery-man, at Fulham, in Middlesex, deceased.
Burchell, William, approximately 1725-1800.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Videos
Grow your own drugs. Part 2, Flowers.
Date: 2009- Books
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A garland of new songs. Jessie the flower o' Dumblane. O stay my love. Lilies of the calley Sally Roy Dear maid I love thee just like love green grow the rashes, O. Far, far at sea.
Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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A flowering daffodil (Narcissus tazetta) with large, ornate border. Chromolithograph by O. Jones, 1845.
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.Date: [1845]Reference: 28318iPart of: The gallery of exotic flowers- Books
The indoor outdoor highest quality marijuana grower's guide / by Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal ; illustrations, Larry Todd.
Frank, Mel, 1944-Date: [1974]- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and hardy plants. With Instructions for Sowing and Planting. Containing Their Latin and English Names, Culture, Times of Flowering, Colours of Flowers of the most ornamental Kinds; With Remarks, shewing, Which are the tallest Growers, and tenderest Kinds. Seeds of Kitchen-Garden Roots Page 1 Seeds of Sallad Herbs and Greens 1 Garden Beans and Pease 4 Kidney or French Beans 5 Seeds of Medicinal Herbs 5 Seeds of Grasses, &c. 5 Seeds of Annual Flowers 6 Seeds of Biennial Flowers 8 Seeds and Plants of Perennial Flowers 10 Bulbous and Tuberous Flower Roots Page 16 Seeds and Plants of Tall Deciduous Trees 19 Seeds and Plants of Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 21 Seeds and Plants of Ever Green Trees and Shrubs 24 Frailing Shrubby Plants 26 Fruit Trees 27 By John Webb, Seedsman, At the Acorn, near Westminster Bridge, London.
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
This book is a plant : how to grow, learn and radically engage with the natural world.
Date: 2022- Digital Images
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Allium moly L., Alliaceae. Golden garlic. Bulbous herb. Distribution: Southwest Europe and Northwest Africa. This is not the 'moly' of Homer's Odyssey Book 10 lines 302-6 which describes Mercury giving Ulysses 'Moly', the antidote to protect himself against Circe's poison ''... The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk
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Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
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Botanicum medicinale; Or An herbal of medicinal plants on the list of the College of Physicians, describing their the place of growth, roots, leaves, flowers, time of flowering, fruits, seed-vessels, seeds, ripening their fruit, colours, parts used in medicine, preparations in the shops. Together with the medicinal virtues, and their names in nine languages. By T. Sheldrake. Note, such plants as grow in England, are drawn from nature with greatest exactness. All such flowers, or parts of flowers, as are too small to be distinguished by the eye, will be magnified, and marked on the plates. This work is disposed in such manner, that every promoter of it may bind them as they shall most approve of, whether alphabetically suitable to any of the languages, or according to their different genus's particular qualities, and their several uses in medicine.
Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770.Date: ca. 1755]- Books
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Pambotanologia, sive, Enchiridion botanicum : or, A compleat herball, containing the summe of ancient and moderne authors, both galenical and chymical, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c., in an alphabetical order, wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford, are noted with asterisks : shewing their place, time, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger, and antidotes : together with an introduction to herbarisme, &c., an appendix of exoticks, an universal index of plants, shewing what grow wild in England / by Robert Lovell.
Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690Date: 1665- Books
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Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise : the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles.
Coles, William, 1626-1662Date: 1657- Books
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Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball : containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.
Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690Date: An. 1659- Books
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The planter's guide: or, pleasure gardener's companion. Giving plain directions, with observations, for the proper disposition and management of the various trees and shrubs for a pleasure garden plantation. To which is added, a list of hardy trees and shrubs for ornamenting such gardens: Concisely Exhibiting at One View The Genera, Class, Order, and Species of each Kind; the Countries they are Natives of; the Height each usually grows to; their Foliages, Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds; the Soil they thrive best in; and their Propagation. The whole Alphabetically Digested. With a Catalogue of the Principal Varieties of Each Kind. Embellished with copper-plates proper to the Subject. by James Meader, late Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.
Meader, James.Date: 1779- Pictures
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A black woman stands in a field with flowers holding a red ribbon above her head with the sun behind; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667016i- Books
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Contemplations amongst Vincent's Rocks, near the city of Bristol: In which there is a Description, not only of the said Rocks, and of the Woods, and a peculiar Flower that grows upon and amongst them, but also Of the Hot-Wells, so samed through all the known World. Likewise of the River that runs between the said Rocks, and of Birds and other Animals that inhabit and seed thereon. Some Notice also is taken of the Ships and other Vessels that are almost continually passing and repassing to and from the City of Bristol. - With some Observations that have been made at different Times on board some Ships, whilst they have been waiting for a Wind in Kingsroad. The whole not only entertaining to the Reader, but also tending, thro' the Divine. Blessing, to the Conviction, Conversion, and Comfort of the Redeemed of the Lord; as every Object treated of is attempted to be Spiritualized. By the Rev. John Dolman, Vicar of Chalk in Kent.
Dolman, John, active 1758-1765.Date: 1772- Books
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Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian : containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682Date: 1674- Digital Images
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Punica granatum L. Lythraceae Pomegranate, granatum malum, balustines. Distribution: E. Mediterranean to Himalayas. The Pomegranate is in the centre of the Arms of the Royal College of Physicians, perhaps for its use in cooling, and therefore for fevers. However it was the sour pomegranate that would have been used as Dioscorides says the sweet ones are unfit for use in agues. Culpeper (1650) makes no mention of the fruit, but says of the flowers ‘... they stop fluxes and the Terms in women.’ In the Complete Herbal and English Physician (1826) says the fruit ‘... has the same general qualities as other acid fruits.’ Of the flowers he says (among other properties) that ‘A strong infusion of these cures ulcers in the mouth and throat, and fastens loose teeth.’ Gerard (1633) says that the cravings of pregnant women can be abolished with the juice, and perhaps it was scurvy which was being treated effectively when he reports that the juice was very effective against splitting of blood and for loose teeth. The dwarf form of this species, Punica granatum var. nana with fruits no more than 3cm across, grows in the border beds. Pomegranate bark can only be sold by registered pharmacies in the UK and used to be used as a vermifuge, with the secondary use that the tincture made from it doubled as a permanent ink. In South Africa the fruit rind is used for diarrhoea and stomach ache, and the bark as a vermifuge, but undesirable side effects make this dangerous. It is reported to be effective against fevers, as a diuretic, to lower blood sugar and to be both antibacterial and antiviral (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The well gardened mind : rediscovering nature in the modern world / Sue Stuart-Smith.
Stuart-Smith, SueDate: 2020- Books
Tending the earth, mending the spirit : the healing gifts of gardening / Connie Goldman, Richard Mahler.
Goldman, ConnieDate: 2000- Books
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The jenny wren Part I. Being a choice collection of favourite songs. Containing, 1. Long have I spent my time in vain 2. When forc'd from dear Hebe to go. 3. Since reason and merit, gives santo love. 4. Near London town there grows a flower. 5. On a primofy bank by a murmering stream 6. One morning young Roger accosted me thus. 7. When Jenny the gay I first courted to wed. 8. Go Rose, my Cloe's bosom grace. 9. No Highland Lad nor dear Pantin. 10. Sons of Bacchus let's be gay. 11. As Chloe sat sheller'd and breath'd the cold Air. 12. Leave Neighbours your Work, 13. Ab! why must Words my Flame reveal? 14. Who can Dorinda's beauty view. 15. Oh! what had I ado for to marry. 16. Smile, smile, Britannia, &c. 17. When Fanny I saw as she trip'd, &c 18. When the trees are all bare, not a Leaf to be seen. 19. As Roger the prowman, a lusty young Savain. 20. As I went o'er the weadow, no matter what auy. 21 When I find my sweet Molly alone. 22. The flame of love sincere I felt. 23. Tho[u] sweep to and fro' old iron to find 24. Of all the trades from East to West.
Date: [1775?]- Digital Images
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Lycopus europaeus (Gypsywort)
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The Empress Josephine walking with her retinue in a garden of labelled potted plants which include animated likenesses of prominent figures. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 March 1814Reference: 38412i- Videos
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The causes of obesity.
Date: 1977- Digital Images
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Blood clot forming in arterial plaque
Annie Cavanagh