
          Recd [Received] Feby [February] 15


 [Pre-printed prospectus]


 Prospectus
 of the
 Flora Georgiensis,


 By L. LaTaste, Principal Georgia Female College, Scottsboro.’


 THIS will be, both a Grammar and Dictionary of Botany;—presenting, first, Vegetable Physiology, and, second, a
 minute and accurate description of every plant yet discovered in Georgia, together with its medicinal or noxious properties
 —its English name—its emblem, language, &c. Such a work is much needed, at this time, in our Southern
 Institutions. We have no text Book in Botany, calculated to render the science attractive. Such as we have, are
 nothing more than either a few disconnected facts in Physiology, or a dry description of a few leaves, roots, flowers,
 &c. all tending to excite disgust rather than taste. Students should, as soon as possible, be inducted into the practical
 part of the science—it is that only which can inspire them with enthusiasm in the prosecution of their researches. We
 have never known a profound botanist, made so, by delving for months over pages treating of sap, alburnum, cambium,
 and the like. This work will teach pupils, first, the names of the classes and orders in the Linnean system, the method
 of analysing flowers, and, proceed next, to the examining, collecting and arranging them in an herbarium. A love
 for the science being thus implanted, it must and will increase, and urge them on to further and further investigations.


 We intend that our work shall be, at once, a text-book for schools—a pleasing companion for the ladies in the boudoir
 and saloon—a useful friend and companion for gentlemen in their travels, their daily rambles, &c. Finally, it will be
 enriched with every species of information which can render such a work entertaining and instructive. 


 We solicit the assistance of scientific gentlemen throughout the State, in furnishing us with information concerning
 the names, locality and habits of plants in their immediate vicinity. Such information will gratefully and properly acknowledged.


 Postmasters are requested to ack as agents in receiving and forwarding us Subscribers’ names, as early as the 1st November.


 The work will contain from 5 to 700 pages, octavo, and be furnished to subscribers, in boards, at $5 per copy. It will
 be issued during the next winter, provided the number of subrcribers [subscribers] warrant the expense.


 Milledgeville, Dec. 22d, 1837.


 SUBSCRIBER’S NAMES. RESIDENCE.


 [Handwritten Note]


 May I, respected sr. [sir] solicit
 the aid of yr [your] distinguished
 name, and high influence in promotiong
 the publication of the 
 above work?


 With respect &c
 L. LaTaste
        