"is thought to make the best , and its soot is a good lamp-black for printers' ink. The leaves are good fodder for horses, kine, sheep, and goats; and the seeds are the favourite food of the ."
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Elizabeth Kent (writer)
1790 β 1861
Elizabeth "Bess" Kent (1790β1861) was an English botanical and horticultural writer, noteworthy as a member of the . Her best known work, Flora Domestica (1823), quoted extensively from and , who was her brother-in-law.
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