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Section XII. 



BOTANY 



By sir WILLIAM HOOKER, K,H., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. &c., 



AiSD Director of^ie Royal Gardens of Kew. 



Botany is a science whicK requires to be studied at 

 home as well as in the field. For this reason it is highly 



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desirable that persons 

 not only obtain information on the spot respecting the 

 j>lants and their uses and properties, but that they should 

 transmit to this country ample collections of welUdried 

 specimens^ with the rarer fruits and seeds^ and all sorts 



of interesting vegetable products. By the latter expres- 



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sion we mean not only gums and resins^ drugs and dye- 



ffsj but whatever may be 



origin In food and clothins 



of vegetable 



_,i building (the various 

 kinds of woods), utensils, &c. We therefore first offer a 

 few plain instructions for collecting and transporting 

 plants in foreign Ian 





Living Plants for Cultivation. 



Plants for cultivation in our Eiiropeaii gardens may be 

 introduced either as seeds, bulbs, tubers, cuttings, or rooted 



plants. 



Seeds, bulbs, and tubers are easily collected, and as 

 easily transmitted to Europe from very distant countries. 



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