A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, / compiled from the works of Hill, Woodville, Don, Withering, and other botanists, by Richard Brook.

  • Brook, Richard, active 19th century.
Date:
[1853?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, / compiled from the works of Hill, Woodville, Don, Withering, and other botanists, by Richard Brook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantity of petals, and they cannot be propagated in the natural manner ; and the gardeners resort to parting- the roots, for continuing the species. The next thing to be studied is the orders. After dividing an army into Regiments, it must again be subdivided into companies ; and we should derive little advantage from the division of the year into twelve months, if we did not subdivide tljese into days. The same holds good in Botanical division. The twenty-four classes are the first division, each class must be divided into orders, or the second division,the orders are again divided into kinds and species