title: Culpeper's Color Herbal
author: David Potterton
description: As charming and elegant as the 17th-century original, this groundbreaking herbal guide combines Nicholas Culpepers fascinating text with up-to-date information and modern full-color illustrations. Culpepera famed astrologer, physician, and authorcovered almost 400 herbs and plants from Aconite and Adders Tongue to Yew and Yucca.
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  Dr Duthoit's Vision  
    
  
  
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  # Dr Duthoit's Vision
  
  
  ### ARTHUR MACHEN
  
  
  
  
  
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  I KNEW a fine specimen of an English abbe when I was at school at Hereford.
  This was Dr
  
  
  Duthoit, Prebendary of Consumpta per Sabulum in Hereford Cathedral, Rector of
  St
  
  
  Owen's, bookworm and, chiefly, rose-grower. He was a middle-aged man when I
  was a
  
  
  little boy; but he suffered me to walk with him in his garden sloping down to
  the Wye, near a
  
  
  pleasaunce of the Vicars Choral, reciting sometimes the poems of Traherne,
  which he had
  
  
  in manuscript, but, for the most part, demonstrating his progress in the art
  of growing a
  
  
  coal-black rose. This was the true work of his life, and nearly forty years
  ago he could show
  
  
  blooms whose copper and crimson tints were very near to utter darkness. I
  believe that