Excerpt from How to Find and Name Wild Flowers: Being a New Method of Observing and Identifying Upwards of 1, 200 Species of Flowering Plants in the British Isles

We remember to have seen an excellent little book in which all the facts of plant structure were explained in ordinary language, but this necessitated a great deal of roundabout diction that might have been prevented had a few technical terms been mastered, and as these terms are found in every other book that the student desires to consult it is the better policy to master them once for all. It would, for instance, be a most hopeless state of things to be entirely willing to take a course of lessons in carpentry on the distinct understanding that such words as gimlet and chisel were not on any excuse of convenience to be employed.

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