A Hard Place
Jun 15, 2022
2 minutes
“Pieces of stone are set an inch apart and half-buried to produce a jewel-coloured floral banquet of the most delectable kind”
In the mid 16th century, an impassioned Conrad Gessner wrote of his resolve “every year to ascend several mountains… when the plants are in full growth, partly for knowledge of them, partly for noble exercise, and gladdening of
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