Plant Names 



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The Garden's Friend. 



plant. Without using botanical terms, try to de- 

 scribe a plant so as to give an exact notion of it to a 

 person who has never seen it, then try to find com- 

 mon words to describe hundreds of plants ; you 

 will then admire the vocabulary of the old herbalist, 

 his " fresh English words/' for you will find that it 

 needs the most dextrous use of words to convey accu- 



