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An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, Etc
Author: Priscilla WAKEFIELDAn introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters. To which is added, The pleasures of botanical pursuits, a poem, by S. Hoare
Author: Priscilla WakefieldAn Introduction to Botany
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Category : Botany
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Pages : 272
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An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, Etc
Author: Priscilla WAKEFIELDAn Introduction to Botany
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Category : Botany
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Pages : 180
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An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters. With ... Engravings
Author: Priscilla WAKEFIELDAn introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters
Author: Priscilla WakefieldAn Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters
Author: Priscilla WakefieldPublisher: Theclassics.Us
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... dust of the anthers in its passage to the pointals3 by which they are fertilized; but nature, ever an (c)economist, makes no such arrangement among those trees which have narrow leaves, . such as the Fir or Yew. This is a remarkable instance of design, and clearly proves that all parts of creation, if properly observed, would furnish us with examples of the wisdom of an infinitely wise Creator, who not only formed every thing in the beginning, but has provided, in a wonderful manner, for their preservation and increase. With this serious reflection I shall conclude, wishing you all kinds of. happiness. FELICIA. LETTER XXVI. Dear Constance, Shrubbery, August 17. HE only distinction between the last class we have examined, and the twenty-second, wLich we are going to investigate, consists in the dispc--. sition of the respective kinds. of flowers. In the former class both kinds were produced on the same plant; but in this, Dioecia, they must be H 4 sought sought for on different plants of the same species. This will cost you some trouble, but we may re member my mother-s favourite maxim, that nothing is to be obtained without its proportion ot labour. The Willow belongs to the second order: the number of stamens is not always the same in the different species; in some there are three or five, of unequal length, and one kind produces complete flowers within the same empalement. Two is the number that distinguishes the order, and which generally prevails; the genus contains many species that concur in the following characters: each kind of flower grows on a scaled catkin, with a single flower in each scale, which has no corolla; die barren flowers have a very small, cylindrical, honied gland, placed in their centre; in those which are
An Introduction to Botany in a Series of Familiar Letters
Author: Priscilla WakefieldPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469674554
Category : History
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Pages : 216
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Author: Priscilla Wakefield