Gerard's Herball

John Gerard's Elizabethan herbal in its glorious original prose — medow-grasse to the barnacle tree, with the vertues, the folk-lore, and the long s intact.

Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese

4 pages in this part of Gerard's Herball.

Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese

The Description.

Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese: Common

The figures refer to the chapters as numbered for this edition. 3. Several pieces of Cotton-grass (Eriophorum) grow on British moors and…

Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese: England

LIB. 2. 31. The Turnip was certainly cultivated in England during the sixteenth century. The author of the "Haven of Health," published in…

Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese: Roses

LIB. 3. 181. It is remarkable that Gerard should have described no more than a dozen Roses. Some of those mentioned in his Garden…

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