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    joy of the mountains

    Feb 28, 2019 2 minutes
    Illustration by Daisy Gray.

    ACCORDING to Theophrastus (380-287 BC), who is often said to be the founding father of Botany, the ancient Greeks gave the name ‘Joy of the mountains’ to oregano, a name derived from oros, joy and ganos, mountains.

    In several months spent roaming around Greece and the Aegean Islands in 1965 I found that modern Greeks were just as enthusiastic about

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