If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.


A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia (ed. 1838)


If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they...

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they...

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they...

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they...