Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TE DEUM LAUDAMUS. must conclude my gossip; which, having begun in the corn-fields, has traversed the principal coun- tries of the world to terminate in our own green meadows and shady woods. Wherever we have been, we have found an abundance of Vegetable Food, to gladden the heart and renew the strength of man. We have seen him nowhere confined to a single article—of which he might quickly weary—but furnished with a wonderful variety to stimulate his industry and gratify his tastes. We have seen, too, that each country has its appropriate growth, so that man shall never be left without food in the world. Yet, how little I have told you ! How much more remains to be told ! If I had had the time, or you were old enough to study the subject more deeply, what countless proofs might I not bring forward, not only of the Divine power and Divine wisdom, but of the Divine love—inexhaustible in its resources, unending in its operation, and bound- less in its compassion !—Praise be to Thee, 0 Father ! Thou preparest us food, when Thou hast provided for it!