Thomas Tusser, a regular at the court of Henry VIII, lists twenty-one strewing herbs in his 1557 instructional poem, " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie " : basil, lemon balm, chamomile, costmary, violets, and winter savory.
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Mavor also published a new edition of Anthony Blackwall's " Introduction to the Classics ", 1809 . He abridged Bourgoanne's " State of Spain " ( 1812 ), and edited with notes and a glossary Thomas Tusser's " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie " ( 1812 ).
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This Bandar of Ghatal was also used as port for anchoring boats and ships with goods . Ghatal had once become famous for manufacture of cotton, tusser silk, bell-metal utensils, earthen ware etc . and was so important that Dutch had a factory in the headquarters town, which is still used as a sub divisional courts and in the early days of British occupation three Commercial Residents were located in the locality to supervise local trade . The old industries like cultivation and weaving of silk and cotton for which Ghatal and his nearest areas were famous from ancient times were systematically wiped away by the policy of the East India Company's administration.
