. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. "^t Influrnrp of l^ I CII littiaiy leave-takings as epilogues and Petivoys have grown 111 > ptihips deserved disuse: for, as Shakespeare says, "A good play ntcds no tpilogue;" yet, before taking final leave of a work that has Lonstituted the delightful labor of many years, and bidding good-bye, IS It weie, to the thousands of human beings to whom the book will >ifloid an introduction, the author would fain add a parting woi'd to .ntoice the incalculable moral, intellectual and sesthetic val
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. "^t Influrnrp of l^ I CII littiaiy leave-takings as epilogues and Petivoys have grown 111 > ptihips deserved disuse: for, as Shakespeare says, "A good play ntcds no tpilogue;" yet, before taking final leave of a work that has Lonstituted the delightful labor of many years, and bidding good-bye, IS It weie, to the thousands of human beings to whom the book will >ifloid an introduction, the author would fain add a parting woi'd to .ntoice the incalculable moral, intellectual and sesthetic value of flori- L Science, in any department of knowledge, is of intrinsic worth to he hum ui mind, but floriculture is eminently instructive, useful and agree- ible It ill the plants of the v^'orld were of one shape, size and color, there Jl^^^ "would iLsult a monotonous imiformity so burdensome to our imagination is can scaicely be conceived in the presence of the almost infinite variety we now enjoy. Nature, as if enticing us to search for her hidden treasures, has produced many woiidLvfiil forms so different from each other that our curi- osity is awakened when we first observe some unusual product of her handiwork; and, thus stimulated, we are led to look for fresh peculiarities, and to push our investigations into the innumerable recesses of the vegetable kingdom, researches of the botanists have added largely to our list of food-plants, and ha\ e given us a sure guide as to which, among the many varieties of edible plants, are best adapted to supply our wants. Indeed, primitive man must have been a botanist in a small way when he first discovered that plants afforded food fit for his use; so that a rude botany must have been the first science cultivated among men. The first step toward civilization was therefore made by each wild tribe when, with some uncouth dibble, or pointed stick, they planted the first seed in the fruitful earth; and the cu!ti\ ation of plants, th
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