Herbs and the earth / by Henry Beston ; introduction by Roger Swain ; woodcuts by John Howard Benson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beston, Henry, 1888-1968.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbs.

Herb gardening.

Herbs--Folklore.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.R. Godine, Publisher, 1990.

Summary:

This is not strictly a gardening book (although there is plenty for the gardener to learn in it), but the reflections of a man thinking not only about what he grows but how it grows, its roots in religion, the Bible, history and medicine. Beston described his efforts as "part garden book, part musing study of our relation to nature through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners." The book was written at the Maine homestead, Chimney Farm. Illustrated with the woodcuts of American stone cutter/letter designer/craftsman John Howard Benson.

Contents:

Of herbs and the earth

Of ten great herbs

Of many herbs of many kinds

Of planting and gardening

Epilogue in spring.

Notes:

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1935.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0879238275

9780879238278

OCLC:

21160765