The English Countrywoman: A Farmhouse Social History, A.D. 1500-1900A. Melrose, 1953 - 221 páginas |
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... flowers . It might have been mead or metheglin because keeping bees and the gathering of honey was one of the usual ... flowers , heather and so on , but it is an advantage to have a flower garden for them to forage in . Cavalier and ...
... flowers . It might have been mead or metheglin because keeping bees and the gathering of honey was one of the usual ... flowers , heather and so on , but it is an advantage to have a flower garden for them to forage in . Cavalier and ...
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... flowers . Besides these she cultivated medi- cinal flowers , fennell , an infusion of which was thought a good bath for weak eyes , camomile to cure headaches , white lilies to break the bile , goat's rue for an infusion to take against ...
... flowers . Besides these she cultivated medi- cinal flowers , fennell , an infusion of which was thought a good bath for weak eyes , camomile to cure headaches , white lilies to break the bile , goat's rue for an infusion to take against ...
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... flowers and her salad vegetables . The poor husbandman's wife invariably did all this work , and was rightly busier with growing food than flowers , though the old favourite flowers adorned many of the cottage gardens . Peas , beans and ...
... flowers and her salad vegetables . The poor husbandman's wife invariably did all this work , and was rightly busier with growing food than flowers , though the old favourite flowers adorned many of the cottage gardens . Peas , beans and ...
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List of Illustrations Page | vii |
The Elizabethan Countrywoman | 17 |
Cavalier and Puritan Countrywomen | 43 |
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