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Medicinal Plants
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So, you want to know what is so special about Cashmirian apple, try one from US and then one from apple orchards of Kashmir. You will yourself realise the difference. No offense meant, but the taste and aroma cannot be described by mere words. You have to feel it to know it.
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When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you know of him?"
Naturally she knew of him. She had her own copies of these works in the White Acre library. She had read Boehme, though she never admired him. Jacob Boehme was a sixteenth-century cobbler from Germany who had mystical visions about plants. Many people considered him an early botanist. Alma's mother, on the other hand, had considered him a cesspool of residual med
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― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
Botany is the scientific study of plants—how plants function, what they look like, how they are …more
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