"The Country Diary Herbal" is the complete guide to growing and using herbs - their symbolic lore, medicinal uses, cosmetic applications, and cooking secrets. Fifty herbs from agrimony to yarrow are... This description may be from another edition of this product.
One little book with so much information. How were herbs used? when and by whom ? And does any of it make sense today? (yes). It has lovely style, quotes by the semi-scientific herbalists of centuries past and many original garden plans taken straight from Tudor England. A-Z guide of plants, all well known in America (this is a UK book) and Ann's lively descriptions of the plants. I have used it with gratitude for years and have never run across anything better.
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