An Introduction To The Study Of English Botany Illustrated By Thirty Seven Plates

Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of English Botany: With a Glossary of Terms; Illustrated by Thirty-Seven Plates When man was exiled from that blissful garden where every tree was pleasant to the sight or good for food, and doomed to eat the herb of the field where it grew amidst thorns and thistles, necessity made him a Botanist. He learned to separate the nutritious from the noxious and when pain and sickness assailed him, he sought the balsam and the balm. The science of Economical Botany, teaching us to supply our wants from the stores of vegetable nature, has been known in all ages, and is diffused over every quarter of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.