NEV/ YOS 



BOTANIC, 



GARDG1> 



MODERN BOTANY FOR LADIES. 



PART I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



5^ The following pages are intended to enable 



my readers to acquire a knowledge of Botany 



with as little trouble to themselves as possible. 



; As, however, Botany is a "wide word," I must 



\ here premise that I only propose to treat of that 



'•i part of the science which relates to the classifi- 



% cation of plants, according to the natural system 



^ of Jussieu, as improved by the late Professor 



*^, De Candolle ; and that the grand object I have 



^ in view is to enable my readers to find out the 



V4 name of a plant when they see it for the first 



\-i time ; or, if they hear or read the name of a 



N. plant, to make that name intelligible to them. 



^"^othing is more natural than to ask the name of 



•^ every pretty flower we see ; but unless the in- 



' " quirer knows something of botany, the name, if 



"^^ it be a scientific one, will seem only a collection 



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