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... herbs . The Preface to his Herball , addressed to Sir William Cecil , an ardent country - house gardener and for a long space his employer , has only one failing : it gives the author too high a reputation as an introducer of plants ...
... herbs . The Preface to his Herball , addressed to Sir William Cecil , an ardent country - house gardener and for a long space his employer , has only one failing : it gives the author too high a reputation as an introducer of plants ...
Page 246
... herbs preceded flowers as the most important residents . Use preceded beauty or , if beauty was in question , it was supplied by trees and statues and such ornaments rather than by beds of flowers . The herbs had two functions . They ...
... herbs preceded flowers as the most important residents . Use preceded beauty or , if beauty was in question , it was supplied by trees and statues and such ornaments rather than by beds of flowers . The herbs had two functions . They ...
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... herbs were simples ; and in the botanical literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an expedition in search of plants was frequently termed a " simpling - voyage " or a " simpling - journey , " while an apothecary skilled in ...
... herbs were simples ; and in the botanical literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an expedition in search of plants was frequently termed a " simpling - voyage " or a " simpling - journey , " while an apothecary skilled in ...
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