Popular Garden Botany: Containing a Familiar and Scientific Description (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Those also who wish to study the botanical characters Of their plants, will find. Them here arranged systematically, with the proper scientific descriptions according to their orders and genera; but to those whose taste does not incline them to the study, the Work will not be the less valuable, as the scientific part may be altogether omitted, without destroying its utility. The Author trusts however that an increased interest in the cultivation Of flowers may arise from this unobtrusive application of science to the favourite plants upon which so much time and labour have been bestowed; a slight additional investigation will make known their construction and properties, as well as their botanical relations to many other interesting plants; while the pleasure enjoyed in looking at a flower, admiring its beauty and its scent, may be greatly heightened by theobtained with the beautiful favourites of the border.

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