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-Rooted, Including the Double Dahlia

To raise your ¿owers, various arts combine 3 Study these well, and fancy's ¿ight decline. If you would have a vivid, vigorous breed Of every kind, examine well the seed: Learn to what elements your plants belong, What is their constitution, weak or strong.

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