. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. jShurfurp of NIMATED nature includes, besides animals, all plants, by which are ( meant in this connection the living organisms that constitute the *â vegetable kingdom, such as trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, grasses. ferns, etc. It will be recollected that there are three great "king- doms" in nature â the mineral, the vegetable and the animal; and of these the one we are at present concerned with holds the middle place. Plants are living things, and the superior vegetables approach so nearly to what
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. jShurfurp of NIMATED nature includes, besides animals, all plants, by which are ( meant in this connection the living organisms that constitute the *â vegetable kingdom, such as trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, grasses. ferns, etc. It will be recollected that there are three great "king- doms" in nature â the mineral, the vegetable and the animal; and of these the one we are at present concerned with holds the middle place. Plants are living things, and the superior vegetables approach so nearly to what are generally considered inferior classes of the animal kingdom, that scientists are at a loss to determine the exact 1 dividing line. On the other hand, it is well known that certain M n ; ⢠â «» ^ w ^ minerals are remains of former vegetation. Hence, in nature one /i!A) kingdom merges into another by gradations so fine that where one begins /r^f'\ and the other ends remains a sort of mysterious secret eluding the analytical powers of man. Vegetable life, like animal life, is a continued succession of renewal and deca\, of assimilation and elimination. (;ro\\th ma\- therefore be said to be the lesult of the assimilaling processes in excess; maturity, of a balance of the assimilating and elimi- nating; and decay, of an excess of the eliminating processes. Vegetables derive their support from the atmosphere, as v\-ell as from the soil, and, like animals, contain a far greater proportion of water than of anything else. The other ingredients are carlion, acid gas imbibed from the air; often a little nitrogen; and derived fn rboi general 1\ a small quantity of mineral substances absorbed roots. CHE MIS rR V OF PLANTS liquii ton the rally .â nts kn. recognize<l as containing about eighteen of the sixty-five :iture, and these are all contributed by the vegetable king- iloni to the support of animal life. It is equally pleasing and instrueli\e to learn, through the sci
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