A curious garden of herbs : cultivated and wild; culinary, medicinal, cordial, and amusing; of the eighteenth-century southern frontier / Kay K. Moss and Suzanne S. Simmons.

"A Curious Garden of Herbs is a richly-illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates they "why" rather than the "how" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a how-to of gardening methods, Moss and Simmons trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places....

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Uniform Title:Publications (Wormsloe Foundation)
Main Authors: Moss, Kay (Author)
Simmons, Suzanne S., 1955- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Series:Publications (Wormsloe Foundation)
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Physical Description:x, 174 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm.
Format: Book

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