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Excerpt from Familiar Garden FlowersThe completion of a Second Series of familiar garden F lowers may suggest to some readers that suitable subjects will now be growing scarce. But there will be no scarcity even when the Third Series is completed, and it matters not how far we proceed, there will still be suitable subjects remaining, so va'st is the field in Which these humble labours are pleasantly prosecuted, and so infinite the variety of b...

Excerpt from Familiar Wild Flowers: Figured and DescribedIT should be prefaced that this Summary merely professes to give a brief epitome of each of the plants represented in this volume, and that it is principally a condensation from the writings of Hooker, Lindley, Bentham, and other authorities on the subject}?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from Familiar Wild FlowersIn our Summary we have availed ourselves largely of the writings of such masters of botanical science as Hooker, Lindley, and Bentham. All that can be said has been so accurately laid down by such men, that to strive after originality would be but to leave the true path, and, while escaping the charge of building on the foundations of others, to incur the greater responsibility of misleading those whom we prof...

Excerpt from Familiar Garden FlowersIN presenting the fifth bouquet of ¿owers from the home garden, occasion is made for returning thanks for the generous manner in which, with all their faults, the several gatherings have been received. The form of the work compels concentration, and it is well known that to write a long letter is much easier than to write a short one. It has sometimes troubled me that the brief space at command for presentin...

Excerpt from That Rock-Garden of OursTum supposed medical virtues - Herb Christopher - Rose root - Foxglove - Plant-marnes based on colour - The mullein - House-leek - The Flora of an old thatched roof - Marsh orchis - Wild tulip The musk mallow and field mallow - Milfoil, or yarrow Sneezewort - Other plants of the genus - Tansy Tansy pudding - Cogan's Haven of Health Wormwood Honesty The yellow and white melilots - Cockle - The corn marigold ...

Excerpt from Familiar Wild Flowers, Vol. 3I'r should be prefaced that this Summary merely professes to give a brief epitome of each of the plants represented in this volume, and that it is principally a condensation from the writings of Hooker, Lindley, Bentham, or other authorities on the subject.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from Familiar Wild Flowers: Figured and DescribedIT should be prefaced that this Summary merely professes to give a brief epitome of each of the plants represented in this volume, and that it is principally a condensation from the writings of Hooker, Lindley, Bentham, or other authorities on the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis ...

Excerpt from Art-Studies From Nature, as Applied to Design: For the Use of Architects, Designers, and Manufacturers, Comprised in Four PapersThe first article is an endeavour on the part of the author to indicate something of the profusion of beautiful form that may be met with in our hedges and skirting our roadsides, to point out the source from whence the mediaeval artists gathered their inspiration, and to plead for its greater use by thei...

Excerpt from Art-Studies From Nature, as Applied to Design: For the Use of Architects, Designers, and Manufacturers, Comprised in Four PapersThe first article is an endeavour on the part of the author to indicate something of the profusion of beautiful form that may be met with in our hedges and skirting our roadsides, to point out the source from whence the mediaeval artists gathered their inspiration, and to plead for its greater use by thei...

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Excerpt from The History, Principles, and Practice of HeraldryWhether it be indeed the noble science, as some of its enthusiastic votaries have termed it, or, as a later writer has affirmed, the science of fools with long memories, may be a more or less open question, but as it is guided by positive rules, which cannot with impunity be violated, so long as it is employed at all, either in the restoration of old buildings, illumination, glass-p...

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Excerpt from That Rock-Garden of OursTum supposed medical virtues - Herb Christopher - Rose root - Foxglove - Plant-marnes based on colour - The mullein - House-leek - The Flora of an old thatched roof - Marsh orchis - Wild tulip The musk mallow and field mallow - Milfoil, or yarrow Sneezewort - Other plants of the genus - Tansy Tansy pudding - Cogan's Haven of Health Wormwood Honesty The yellow and white melilots - Cockle - The corn marigold ...

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First published in 1895, Natural History Lore and Legend is an early look at cryptozoology from England. Though the book begins by dissecting zoological knowledge in the Middle Ages and describing medieval naturalists who searched for the truth, it quickly moves into a more in-depth study of some of the most well-known legendary creatures: pygmies, mermaids, phoenixes, the basilisk, and more. Mythological creatures are compared to modern anima...

First published in 1895, Natural History Lore and Legend is an early look at cryptozoology from England. Though the book begins by dissecting zoological knowledge in the Middle Ages and describing medieval naturalists who searched for the truth, it quickly moves into a more in-depth study of some of the most well-known legendary creatures: pygmies, mermaids, phoenixes, the basilisk, and more. Mythological creatures are compared to modern anima...

Excerpt from Familiar Wild FlowersIn our Summary we have availed ourselves largely of the writings of such masters of botanical science as Hooker, Lindley, and Bentham. All that can be said has been so accurately laid down by such men, that to strive after originality would be but to leave the true path, and, while escaping the charge of building on the foundations of others, to incur the greater responsibility of misleading those whom we prof...