{"product_id":"physic-garden-herb-seed-kit","title":"Physic Garden Healing Herb Seed Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Physic Garden Healing Herb Seed Kit is a gift box of 10 traditional herb seed varieties once grown in the physic gardens of monasteries, apothecaries and early botanists. 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