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 Manured Vine

3 pages in this part of Gerard's Herball.

Of the Manured Vine

The Description.

Of the Manured Vine: Grapes

Of Grapes.

Of the Manured Vine: Barley

TO speake of wine the juice of Grapes, which being newly pressed forth is called Mustum or new wine; after the dregs and drosse are setled…

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