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a comprehensive history of american gardens,
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This review is from: Early American Gardens: "For Meate or Medicine" (Paperback)
I have been researching the history of gardening in America and have not found a better rescource than Ann Leighton's books, specifically Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine. This book is full of good facts and is very readable. Covering the colonization of North America from its earliest years, this book goes into detail on primary sources as well as recent scholarly efforts. This book will be useful for anyone interrested in gardening (especially if making an historic garden on your own property) or in history (especially if you are bored reading about political history).
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The gardens of any period in history are its most intimate spirit, as immediate as its breath, and as transient. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
such garden herbs, being boyled, other herbes, provoketh urine, greene colour, provoke urine, green wounds, garden parsley, mad dog bites, old cough, seed list, old ulcers, borage family, pleasant flowers, root boiled, winter savory, sweet marjoram, lavender cotton Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Josselyn, John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, Early American Gardens, William Wood, Samuel Sewall, Captain John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Governor Winthrop, Leonard Meager, Andrew Boorde, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Johnson, Edward Taylor, George Baker, Nicholas Culpeper, George Fenwick, Garden of Pleasure, John Parkinson, Richard Cutt, Royal Society, The Countrie Farme, The Queens Closet, Angel of Bethesda, East Anglia New!
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The gardens of any period in history are its most intimate spirit, as immediate as its breath, and as transient. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
such garden herbs, being boyled, other herbes, provoketh urine, greene colour, provoke urine, green wounds, garden parsley, mad dog bites, old cough, seed list, old ulcers, borage family, pleasant flowers, root boiled, winter savory, sweet marjoram, lavender cotton Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Josselyn, John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, Early American Gardens, William Wood, Samuel Sewall, Captain John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Governor Winthrop, Leonard Meager, Andrew Boorde, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Johnson, Edward Taylor, George Baker, Nicholas Culpeper, George Fenwick, Garden of Pleasure, John Parkinson, Richard Cutt, Royal Society, The Countrie Farme, The Queens Closet, Angel of Bethesda, East Anglia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Angel of Bethesda: An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind by Cotton Mather on 8 pages
- Culpeper's Complete Herbal (Wordsworth Reference) by Nicholas Culpeper on 5 pages
- Adam and Eve: The Story of the First Man and Woman (God Loves Me) (God Loves Me Storybooks) by Patricia L. Nederveld on page 143, and page 146
- Wild Flowers (Piccolo Spotters) (Piccolo Books) by Bob Press in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton on page 98, and page 106
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- P. Allen Smith's Garden Home: Creating a Garden for Everyday Living by P. Allen Smith in Back Matter
- Midwifery Theory and Practice (Childbirth : Changing Ideas and Practices in Britain and America, 1600 to the Present) by Philip K. Wilson on page 190
- The Wild Berry Book: Romance, Recipes and Remedies (Camp & Cottage Nature Collection) by Katie Letcher Lyle in Back Matter
- Martha Stewart's Gardening: Month by Month by Martha Stewart in Back Matter
- The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines by Matthew Wood in Back Matter
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