. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. r 1 ^-"-^^ -^i^VS!" ^^%hm% of ( I >;//: â¢as that first invented a system of classification of i uncertain. Since the days when Solomon, king of Israel, "spake of trees from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall;" or those of Zoroaster, who is said to have taught that the primeval creative power called forth from the blood of the sacred Isiiill 120,000 forms of plants; or earlier if the reader wishes, since the time when primitive began
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. r 1 ^-"-^^ -^i^VS!" ^^%hm% of ( I >;//: â¢as that first invented a system of classification of i uncertain. Since the days when Solomon, king of Israel, "spake of trees from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall;" or those of Zoroaster, who is said to have taught that the primeval creative power called forth from the blood of the sacred Isiiill 120,000 forms of plants; or earlier if the reader wishes, since the time when primitive began first to observe and \\ undci at liis surroundings, the present hour, the glory of the vegetable creation necessarily excited his admiration. The Chaldaean t'i ^H' ' 'â¢' shepherds, who are credited with the discovery of astron- £] SK' " â '""yj through their undisturbed contemplation of the " -^"V' " tlowers of heaven," could not have been entirely unmind- ⢠> till of the " stars of earth, the beautiful ; 74-266), a Greek philosopher and pupil of Aristotle, wrote a "History of Plants," and a work "On the Causes of Plants," which evince not a little knowledge of the organs and physiology thereof. Pliny the Elder (a. d. 23-79), in his great compilation, the " Thirty-seven Books of Histories of Nature," gives many curious bits of information in reference to about one thousand plants. Dioscorides, who flourished about one hundred years later, described five hundred plants; and his work is lemarkable as being the source of much of the terminology still used in our hooks on floriculture. Scientific botany, however, owes its rise to the revival of letters in the â -ixteenth century. Otto Brunfels (1464-1534) is considered the first among the moderns to attempt a classification of plants. Andrea Cesalpino {1519-1603), Italian physician and botanist, was perhaps the first to establish a na
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