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Henry Beston (1888-1968)
Herbs and the Earth
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1935

Henry Beston was born in a suburb of Boston, educated at Harvard (graduating in 1909), and went on to serve in the volunteer ambulance corp during World War I. He dabbled in writing and editing after the war, but in his mid-thirties finally settled into his "calling" as a writer-naturalist. His first work was published in 1928; Herbs and the Earth came in 1935 and was a look at the mysteries of soil, growth, and herbs, as well as a history of these.

Beston, page 1, showing the astrological relationship to the earth

Page 19 from Beston, showing an idyllic country scene

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