Botany has introduced us to a more intimate acquaintance with the names and characters, and with something also of the physical economy of both "the trees of the wood" and of the smallest plants which flourish at their feet; so that wherever we cast our eyes, we behold matter for both admiration and research.

The Book of the Seasons, October (pp. 353-354), Henry Colburn & Richad Bentley. 1831