June Program

Herbs, Herbals, and Herbalists
Judith Sumner

June 10, 1:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church, New London

Judith Sumner will offer an engaging slide-illustrated talk on early herbals and the botanists who wrote them, including Dioscorides, the Renaissance herbalists, John Gerard, and others; the curious Doctrine of Signatures and various ancient and modern herb and spice uses are part of the herbal story. 

 

Pictured here: A page in John Gerard’s Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597) from the Leeds Library collection in England.