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The following invaluable compendium will, it is presumed, 

 prove highly interesting to the reader, as it embraces the 

 very essence of Horticulture and Floriculture ; it is, there- 

 fore, well adapted as an appendage to the Florist's Guide:— 



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THE FIRST PRINCIPLES 



HOMEOTMUEJE. 



By JOHN LINDLEY, F. R. S. &c. &c. 



V.O/ESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY CF LONDON; AND ASSISTANT 

 SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOC.ETY. 



I. General Nature of Plants. 



1. Horticulture is the application of the arts of cul- 

 tivation, multiplication, and domestication to the vegetable 

 kingdom. Agriculture and Arboriculture are branches of 

 Horticulture. 



2. The vegetable kingdom is composed of living beings, 

 destitute of sensation, with no power of moving spontaneously 

 from place to place, and called plants. 



3. Plants are organized bodies, consisting of masses of 

 tissue that is permeable by fluids or gaseous matter. 



4. Vegetable tissue consists either of minute bladders, or 

 tubes adhering by their contiguous surfaces, and leaving 

 intermediate passages where they do not touch. 



5. Tissue is called Cellular when it is composed of minute 

 bladders, which either approach the figure of a sphere, or are 

 obviously some modification ot it, supposed to be caused by 

 extension or lateral compression. 



