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A Curious Garden of Herbs - Cultivated and Wild; Culinary, Medicinal, Cordial, and Amusing; of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier (Hardcover)
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A Curious Garden of Herbs - Cultivated and Wild; Culinary, Medicinal, Cordial, and Amusing; of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier (Hardcover)
Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series
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A Curious Garden of Herbs is a richly illustrated collection of
herbal fact and lore that illuminates the "why" rather than the
"how" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a
how-to of gardening methods, Kay K. Moss and Suzanne S. Simmons
trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places. A
Curious Garden of Herbs is peppered with reflections and
observations from manuscripts and published herbals that detail the
historical uses and fascinating stories surrounding plants of
documented interest in the early American South and mid-Atlantic.
Practicality and necessity were the guiding theses for gardening in
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century rural and frontier
settlements in the Southeast. There were plants for food, for
seasoning, for medicine, for dye, for insect repellency, and for
scent. While many of these plants were also decorative, utility
dominated the rationale of backcountry gardeners. Unlike the
experimental and exotic collections of Thomas Jefferson and other
wealthy gentleman botanists, the gardens detailed in these pages
are generally of the "middling sort"-of townspeople and farmers, of
"housewives," merchants, and artisans. A Curious Garden of Herbs
brings these everyday herbs to life with sixty historical
illustrations. In addition to including the well-known varieties
such as parsley, lavender, cucumber, and asparagus, this
wonderfully illustrated catalog of more than a hundred plants also
reveals new ways to enjoy violet, rose, and nasturtium. Moss and
Simmons also encourage readers to invite lesser-known plants, such
as wild purslane, mullein, and wood sorrel into their gardens and
conversations.
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