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Comment on Travel in Sense & Sensibility ~ Part V ~ Carriages ~ Regency Sports Cars! by Janeite Deb

Janeite Deb — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:56:39 +0000

Thanks for stopping by! – I shall follow your blogs as well – esp interested to hear what you write about the carriages at Arlington Court!

Comment on Travel in Sense & Sensibility ~ Part V ~ Carriages ~ Regency Sports Cars! by arlingtoncourtblog

arlingtoncourtblog — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:13:02 +0000

Fantastic source of info! For a novice at a carriage museum this is a great read…

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Janeite Deb

Janeite Deb — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:13:59 +0000

Thank you Mary Bess – I appreciate that!

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Mary Beth Bass

Mary Beth Bass — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:57:42 +0000

Reblogged this on Mary Beth Bass and commented: I love this post!

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Tony Grant

Tony Grant — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:10:09 +0000

Just realised . You mention Gilbert white. The time before last when I had Clive staying with us we set ourselves the task of reading Gilbert Whites, Natural History of Selborne, which we both did before Clive arrived from Canada. and, yes, you guessed, we spent a day at Selborne exploring Whites walks and landscape and observing White’s beloved, “Hirondells,” swooping about and slicing the air above the wooded hangar above Selborne. His museum is brilliant. You can find the small headstone with just his intitials G.W. carved into it behind the beautiful country church in Selborne where I am sure he often took the service.

I have loads and loads of photographs, Deb.

You really must come and spend a few months living here to see all the places you SHOULD see, Deb!!!!!!!!!!

Marilyn and I will put you up. Come next year. We having a lot done to the house later this year so we will be a building site for a while. When it’s done you must come and stay.

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Tony Grant

Tony Grant — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:45:56 +0000

A link to Museum No1 at Kew.

http://www.kew.org/heritage/places/museum1.html

All the best, Tony

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Janeite Deb

Janeite Deb — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:15:58 +0000

Hello Tess! – yes, the Culpeper’s Herbal is a great book! – I should do a more complete post on all the herbals out there! now off to read Tony’s post – guess we are all thinking Spring!

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Janeite Deb

Janeite Deb — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:12:55 +0000

Hi Tony – how funny is that – I just see your post on plants, etc – excellent! I just did this quick post because the article in Colonial Williamsburg was so interesting and I wanted to just mention Blackwell’s herbal – I have missed getting to Kew several times – but do have a lovely book on it… I will hold you to that tour when next I am over there!
Thanks as always for stopping by,
Deb

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by TessQ

TessQ — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:05:58 +0000

Lovely and timely article to read and look at. The illustration of that Auricula is incredible, the flower almost looks like it could be a photograph. The slide show was fun. Thanks!

Also appreciate Tony Grant’s post re Kew Gardens. I was there once but hadn’t enough time to see it all — I’d say a return trip is definitely on my list now for a visit to the museum. (I’m no gardener, only knew the Auricula from the label under the picture, LOL… but I’m interested!)

I have a copy (modern reprint) of Culpeper’s Herbal, which predates those cited here. But I don’t know that it is my ‘favorite’ – just the only one with which I have been acquainted to date.

Comment on Have to Share: “Uncommon and Expensive” – Edwards’s The British Herbal by Tony Grant

Tony Grant — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:24:05 +0000

Deb, there must be something in the air; sap rising, the fertility of the soil or something. I have just written about a garden, plants and seeds and various great 18th century botanists on both sides of the Atlantic too.

Love the fantastic illustrations.

If ever you got to Kew, and you must one day,. I’ll even take you, they have a museum of the history of botany and exhibits including botanical samples and many fantastic illustrations going back to the 18th century.

All the best,
Tony