Garden where culinary herbs, aromatic herbs or medicinal herbs are grown

Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.

A physician and a surgeon pointing to herbs in a herb garden; indicating medicine and surgery for the poor. Engraving, 1671.

Vases of flowers and a botanic garden with Saint Peter. Oil painting by O'Brien.

1 print : engraving ; image 12.4 x 7.8 cm

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 55 x 66.3 cm (painted area)

The herb garden of the Worshipful Company of Barbers of London.

40 pages : illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm + 1 sheet (illustrations 28 x 11 cm)

Saving seeds : metaphors of lesbian growth / by Jennifer Weston and other gardeners.

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A physician and a surgeon pointing to herbs in a herb garden; indicating medicine and surgery for the poor. Engraving, 1671.

Vases of flowers and a botanic garden with Saint Peter. Oil painting by O'Brien.

The herb garden of the Worshipful Company of Barbers of London.

Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.

Saving seeds : metaphors of lesbian growth / by Jennifer Weston and other gardeners.