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662. Le Lectier. Catalogue des arbres cultivez dans la verger et plan du Sieur Le Lectier 

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664. Mitchell, Donald. Note on medicinal plant cultivation at Inverness: an old 

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 distillation and sold in the wholesale market. The collection of bearberry leaves {Arctosta- 

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666. Payne, C. H. A strawberry bibliography. Jour. Pomology 1: 235-242. 1920.— 

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