Excerpt from A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, With Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals, and Their Application in the Arts, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy
There is, perhaps, no department of science with which so many delightful associations are connected as the study of Botany. The gorgeous beauty and periodical verdure of trees and flowers, the economical utility and medicinal virtues of many plants, and their general application in the commonest arts of life, have attracted the admiration and secured the attention of mankind from the earliest ages; and still continue to be objects of the greatest importance.
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