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Common herbs as grown in the hortyards at Gulval and their uses / by Lt. Col. G. R. Gayre.
LIBRA - Rare SB351.H5 G39 1950 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gayre of Gayre and Nigg, Robert, 1907-1996.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herbs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Quackenbush, Ree (bookplate) (Inscription) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Govus, Kit (autograph) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 66 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Marazion, Cornwall : Printed by F. Worden & Son.
- Place of Publication:
- Gulval, Cornwall : Mead Makers Ltd., The Mead House, [1950]
- Contents:
- Angelica: Angelica
- Artemesia: Southernwood, Wormwood
- Carbenia: Blessed thistle
- Carum: Parsley, Caraway
- Centaurea: Centaury
- Coriandrum: Coriander
- Cyperus: Galingale
- Cytisus: Broom
- Foeniculum: Fennel
- Gentiana: Gentian
- Geum: Geum
- Hyssopus: Hyssop
- Illicium: Aniseed tree
- Inula: Elecampane
- Iris: Iris
- Laurus: Bay tree
- Lavandula: Lavender
- Marrubium: Horehound
- Melissa: Balm
- Mentha: Spearmint, Peppermint, Apple mint; Pennyroyal
- Monarda: Sweet bergamot
- Pimpinella: Aniseed
- Pulmonaria: Lung-wort
- Rosmarinus: Rosemary
- Ruta: Rue
- Salvia: Clary sage, Common sage
- Sambuccus: Elder
- Tanacetum: Alecost, Tansy
- Teucrium: Germander
- Thymus: Thyme.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- "Notes are appended not only of the cultivation, kitchen and health use of each of the herbs as grown in the Gulval Hortyards, but, where possible, of the usefulness of the herbs to beekeepers."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 66).
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Malgieri Collection copy has bookplate of Ree Quackenbush and inscribed "To Ree from Kit Govus. March 17, 1951".
- OCLC:
- 12014066
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