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    Jul 16, 2020 3 minutes

    THE DOMESTIC HERBAL

    rowing far more herbs than required has become a lockdown pastime; who would have thought one could have a glut of lovage? Time spent propagating made reading Margaret Willes’ book on these essential plants and their place in the 17th-century home pertinent. After the advent of the printing press, herbals were some of the first books available to the general market. (Culpeper’s is one of the most successful books

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