Scientific plate made in 1791 for the book by De la Croix and Clayton, collected in Henry Lee's work. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, also called Borametz and ...

IN former times it was generally believed that there existed in the East a mysterious “plant-animal,” variously called “the vegetable lamb of Tartary,” “the Scythian lamb,” and “the Barometz,” or ...

During these times of imposed home-bodiness, we may think the only thing eating can change is our waistline. But choices around diet can have serious and far-reaching results worldwide. It’s good to ...

"The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant" by Henry Lee. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known ...

A new study has shown that fabled Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a plant once believed to ripen into a baby sheep, produces substances that show promise in laboratory experiments A new study has shown ...

A brand new concept from the team behind the award-winning Edinburgh Castle pub in Ancoats has been announced to take over the site of a former restaurant. Next month a new public house and grill, The ...

The American Fern Journal, a quarterly, international, scholarly journal that includes research papers on all aspects relating to ferns and related plants, has been published since 1910. Those ...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant" (To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton ...