Excerpt from The Florist's Guide: Containing Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Flowering Plants of Different Classes, Herbaceous and Shrubby, Bulbous, Fibrous, and Tuberous-RootedWhat subject can be better calculated to. Promote, such a desideratum than the subject of cultivation. When viewed in all its bearings? But as we are about: treating of Flowers, I would confine my ideas, as nearly as possible, to the object in View, trusting, that while the hand is employed in cultivating the tran sient beauties of the Garden, that (the attentive mind will feast and fare daintily on the study of nature, and in theend enrich itself with solid and lasting good. As an excitement to such study, the followmg thoughts are submitted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.