Cuttencruyt
Dit heel cruydeken is van eene seer vuylen reuck, selfs den bedorven ende verrotten gesauten Visch, ende het stinckende Peekel oft Vischsop, met sijnen moeyelijcken jae afgrijselijcken stank verre te boven gaende…
Chenopodium vulvaria
Three small plants are growing under the watchful eye of Bart Backaert, Aalst. The smell, he writes, is already noticeable.
Chenopodium vulvaria
Chenopodium vulvaria has all but disappeared from Belgium. It is on the list of 100 plants that Nicholas Culpeper describes as emmenagogues in his Complete Herbal (1653) and one that we are trying to grow. The seeds have arrived from … Read More