Sunday, 25 January 2015

World’s Oldest Gardening Manual To Be on Display

World’s Oldest Gardening Manual To Be on Display


The world’s oldest gardening manual, offering bizarre horticultural tips dating back more than 700 years, was once owned by Henry VIII. Well-thumbed and annotated, it imparts green-fingered gems such as planting squashes in human ashes for quicker fruiting, using goat manure to grow tastier lettuce and the observation that cucumbers tremble with fear at thunder

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