10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOWBREAD»
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sowbread in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of ...
CYCLAMEN; Sowbread. The Characters are ; It hath a thick, round, jLfly 'Root :
The Flowers arise singly us on Pedicles from the Root, which coujift of one Leaf,
divided into jive or fix Segments, which are reflex'J almost to the Bottom, where ...
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Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History
Take ashes of burnt vine, the chaff of barley nodes, and licorice wood (so that it
may the more brightly shine) and sowbread; boil the chaff and the sowbread in
water. With the chaff and the ash and the sowbread, let a pot having at its base
two ...
3
A Dictionary of Modern Gardening
Round-leaved, springflowering sowbread. Reddish purple. January to March. 0.
Europrzum. Round-leaved, summer-flowering sowbread. Reddish purple.
Fragrant. July to September. 0. vernurn. Round-leaved winterflowering sowbread
.
George William Johnson, David Landreth, 1847
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Botanicum officinale: or a compendious herbal giving an ...
(Cyclamen) Sow-bread, Off. Cyclamen orbiculato folio, round Sowbread, Ger. —
Orbiculato folio inserne parpurascente, round leav'd Sowbread, purplish
underneath, C. B. — Autumnale vulgare folio rotundo, common Sowbread, Park.
Parad.
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Sauer's Herbal Cures: America's First Book of Botanic ...
Sowbread (Ivy-Leafed Cyclamen) Cyclamen nedereaeiolium Sauer:
Schweinbrod (1773) A native of Italy and Greece, this attractive plant was
introduced into European gardens at a very early date and has since naturalized
in many places far ...
William Woys Weaver, 2001
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The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval ...
Take ashes of burnt vine, the chaff of barley nodes, and licorice wood (so that it
may the more brightly shine), and sowbread; boil the chaff and the sowbread in
water. With the chaff and the ash and the sowbread, let a pot having at its base
two ...
sowbread. A beautiful plant with deep purple- carmine nodding flowers. Its heart-
shaped leaves are dark green and glossy with light vein tracings. The common
English name derives from the Medieval Latin, a reminder that it was swine feed,
...
8
The Fragments of Attic Comedy
Cephisoddrus Trophonius : master Then please, good Xanthias, buy me body-
scent, Iris and rose, and sowbread— separately— For the feet. xanthias You're
going it ! buy you sowbread ? me ? I '11 go you wenching rather. Sowbread ?
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Materia medica or A new description of the virtues and ...
For Example, Take Root of Sowbread powder' d one Dram, Sa ft of Tartar half a
Scruple, make a Powder to be given in Oxymel of Squills or simple Oxymel j
because these gently acid Particles do prevent the two great Stimulus of the
volatile ...
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Circle of the seasons, and perpetual key to the calendar and ...
Roundleaved Sowbread Cyclamen Coum flowers. This beautiful ornament of the
early spring will blow at this time if kept sheltered, or in a greenhouse, but it will
not flower near so soon in the open ground in our climate : it is figured in Curtis' ...
Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, 1828
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOWBREAD»
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The Persian cyclamen
In many languages cyclamens have colloquial names which refer to the fact that the plant is eaten by pigs. In English, it is sowbread, in Italian pan porcino and in ... «Times of Malta, Mar 14»
The joy of Cyclamen
WHEN it comes to common names, "sowbread" is not one of the most atractive. I've never kept pigs but I doubt I'd ever have enough in the way of funds to feed ... «Express.co.uk, Sep 13»
אביב הגיע, פרח בא: מדריך פריחה למטייל באביב
בלשון העממית באנגלית קרויה הרקפת Sowbread - לחם החזיר; וכך גם בצרפתית - Pain de Pourceau, בגלל העובדה שהחזירים אוהבים לטעום את הרקפות. השראה לכתר המלכים. «ynet ידיעות אחרונות, Mar 13»
Cyclamen a popular indoor Christmas flower
Old English called them sowbread, as they are eaten by pigs, the French call cyclamen "pain de pourceau" or "pig bread" the same as "pan porcino" in Italian, ... «Cape Gazette, Dec 12»
Ask the Edmonds Vet: Plants with saponins toxic to dogs, cats and …
Cyclamen (Sowbread) contains terpenoid saponins and eating this plant will result in gastric upset. Ingestion of large quantities of the tubers of this plant can ... «My Edmonds News, Oct 12»
How to spot a plant going through an identity crisis
Sowbread is close to the obscure extreme, but I think we can do even better than that. Also according to the Wisley list, hostas are “August lilies”, a name that ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 11»
