GARDEN BOTANY: 



AN INTRODUCTION TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 



COMMON CULTIVATED PLANTS. 



This simple Introduction to a knowledge of the plants commonly cultivated 

 in this country, whether for use or ornament, is prepared as a useful accom 

 paniment to the Botany of the Northern United States, and is made as 

 extensive as the needful limits of such a volume will allow. It will serve the 

 purpose of enabling pupils to study our ordinary exotic as well as indigenous 

 plants, to ascertain their names, and to refer them to their place in the system. 



It is to be used wholly in connection with the foregoing Artificial Key, p. xv., 

 which is arranged to lead the pupil, if he has an exotic or other cultivated plant 

 in hand, to this Garden Botany, — if a wild plant, to its order in the proper 

 Botany of the Northern United States. If the cultivated plant be one which is 

 described in the main body of the work, — as may frequently be the case, — 

 the analysis will conduct to a reference, " Man. p. . . ," where the plant in ques- 

 tion may be found described. It is needless to repeat the description of such 

 species. 



For the same reason, the character or brief description of the orders and of 

 the genera already in the Botany of the Northern United States is not repeated 

 in the Garden Botany; but a reference, "Manual," or "Man.," followed by 

 the page, directs the student to the place where the order or the genus, &c. is 

 characterized. 



Since by far the greater part of the names of the genera, &c. of our cultivated 

 plants occur in the body of the work, where they are duly accentuated to in- 

 dicate their proper pronunciation, the accents are not introduced here, except 

 in the case of a few words, for the most part not already in the Manual, which 

 are particularly liable to be mispronounced. 



As this Garden Botany is intended to be used only for exercise in botanical 

 analysis, an Index of the names of the plants contained in it, for obvious rea- 

 sons, is purposely omitted. 



