Jan. 20th, 2005

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Ok, so great I gotta share it:

Libraries, the Princeton campus's unknown repository of sexiness by John V. Fleming, Princetonian Columnist:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/01/17/opinion/11826.shtml

Oh, and by the way, LibrarianAvenger is Back Up!
http://www.librarianavengers.org/worship.html
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Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman on sage:

"Sage is in gardens most common, because it is most wholesome, and though it may be better set from the slip then sowen in the seede, yet both will prosper, it loveth any well drest ground, and may be sowen either in February , March, September, or October: it loveth also to grow thicke and close together, and will of it selfe overcome most weedes: it asketh not much dung, neithe too great care in watring, onely it would be oft searched, for Toades and other venemous thnings will delight to lye under it, the more Sunne and ayre it hath, the better it is. (p. 26-- 2nd book, chapter V).

Also, in Chapter 1 of the same, he says " In the month of May . . .Sage with sweet Butter is a most excellent breakefast..."

Obviously, if I'm writing a period treatise, I can't mention him by name in the treatise, since his books are postperiod. However, I can make reference to 'what people say'.
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The plant is a most noble one, a sort of shrub. When it is young, it is graye-green, and hath small leaves of an Oval shape, with smooth edges but much toothed on the surface, as a cow's tongue. If it abideth a year or more, the main Trunks become hard and gray, and are like wood. In the colder parts, it dropeth its leaves in winter-tide; but in these more seasonable climes, the branches oft bear some leaves green all winter. When the leafs are picked and dried hanging or on a screen, they are gray. Some like to grind them thus into powder, but it liketh me not. Let the sprigs be dried hanging and in a drie ayre, and then close them up in a bagge or box, and use them as occasion call.

Though the poor place sage and suchlike herbs in the worst ground in the garden, the wise gardiners of old and nowadays say that a well drest soil doeth best for Sage. I have known it to grow in shade, and in red-clay soil; but it liketh best a loose sweet soil, not often dunged, and a great Quantitie of Sunne. In the Italies it growth in the full strength of the sun, which at noonday will scorch the skin. Though it can be brought from seed, it is a paltry business, and 'tis better to set slippes of the branches, which boweth out to the ground as the limbs of an aged man. Husbandmen say Sage plants are best planted close, and together they will choke away the weeds; but thou must clean out dead leaves and rubbish from under the branches, lest noxious Toades and other Reptiles nest there. I have heard it said, and seen it is so, that you must set new slips from time to time, and cut the Branches back close on one side, for if the plant grow too Woodey they said it will strangle itself and lose vigor, as those long in appointment may grow careless in office.

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