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Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History

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Figure 11. A Plan of the Pounding House, engraving by an unknown engraver after an original by an unknown artist for Philip Miller (1691–1771), The Method of Cultivating Madder, As It Is Now Practised by the Dutch in Zealand (where the best madder is produced), with Their Manner of Drying, Stamping, and Manufacturing It for Use, Embellished with Draughts of Their Buildings and Kilns Erected for That Purpose: To Which Is Added the Method of Cultivating Madder in England, from Many Experiments Made in the Course of Thirty Years on the Culture of That Useful Plant (London, printed for the author and sold by John Rivington, and James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1758, pl. 5), HI Library call no. DH71 M649M.