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Elizabeth Kent Quotes

1790–1861 England

Elizabeth "Bess" Kent (1790–1861) was an English botanical and horticultural writer, noteworthy as a member of the Cockney School. Her best known work, Flora Domestica (1823), quoted extensively from John Keats and Leigh Hunt, who was her brother-in-law.

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Birch-wood is thought to make the best charcoal, and its soot is a good lamp-black for printers' ink. The leaves are good fodder for horses, kine, sheep, and goats; and the seeds are the favourite food of the Siskin, or Averdevine.

Sylvan Sketches (1825)

The Weeping Willow is most appropriately named, for, in addition to the pensive drooping appearance of its branches, it is common to see little drops of water, which stand like fallen tears upon the leaves. The willow will grow in any but a dry soil, but most delights and best thrives in the immediate neighbourhood of water.

Sylvan Sketches (1825)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Kent (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.