For 1824;
or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack:
Containing an Explanation of Saints' Days and Holidays;
With Illustrations of British History and Antiquities, Notices of Obsolete Rites and Customs, Scetches of Comparative Chronology, and Contemporary Biography.
Astronomical Occurrences in Every Month; Comprising Remakrs on the Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies, with Reflections on the Starry Heavens: and
The Naturalist's DIary; Explaining the Various Appearances in the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms.
To which are prefixed outlines of historical and physical Geography; and An Indtroductory Poem on Flowers.
By Bernard Barton.
Published annyally.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co.
Paternoster Row.
1824
One of the foremost and most predatory of these is the nettle (urtica urens); 'this plant, with pellitory of the wall, may be said,' observes M. Brisseau Mirbel, 'to seek the society of man, and to haunt his footsteps:' this is the consequence of their requiring a soil containing nitrate of potass, which salt always abounds near the habitations of man. Hurtful to, and despised as is this weed by the cultivators of the soil, yet it is one of the comparatively few of the vegetable myriads of which man has discovered the utility. In the county of Salop, it is dressed and manufactured like flax into cloth; this is likewise the case in France, where too it is made into paper: when dried, this plant is acceptable to sheep and oxen. In Russia, a green dye is obtained from its leaves, and a yellow one from its roots. In the spring, every person is aware that nettle-tops are made into a salutary pottage; and in Scotland they make a rennet from a decoction of it with common salt, for coagulating their milk in the making of cheese.
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