. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE ALMOND. 331 ing example of how much good a right minded and active individual may do to his humhler brethren of the human family. "Why have not every where the names been preserved," says Humboldt, ''of those who, in place of ravaging the earth, have enriched it with plants useful to the human race?' It is satisfactory to obse
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE ALMOND. 331 ing example of how much good a right minded and active individual may do to his humhler brethren of the human family. "Why have not every where the names been preserved," says Humboldt, ''of those who, in place of ravaging the earth, have enriched it with plants useful to the human race?' It is satisfactory to observe, however, that when men are highly civilized, there is an elasticity in their mental energies, which makes the destruction of tyranny and war of less permanent injury than when their in- flictions fall upon a rude people. Sickler, a dis- tinguished naturalist of Germany, who has paid particular attention to the cultivation of fruit trees, had, in the Duchy of Saxe Gotha, formed three nurseries for fruit trees, one of which con- tained eight thousand grafted plants. In 1806, this nursery was entirely destroyed by the French, after the battle of Jena: Ney's corps bivou- acked in it. After the battle of Leipsic, in 1814, another nursery, planted by the same eminent man, was destroyed by the Cossacks. Yet in 1817 he had planted and reared a third nursery with his own hand,—persevering, in spite of the injuries which he had received in these dreadful contests to distribute his fine plants, and the knowledge of their cultivation, over his native country. The labours of such a man wiU endure when the fame of conquerors is forgotten, or thought worthless, or only remembered to be hated as it deserves. It has been already stated that some doubts exist as to the difference between the peach and the almond being more than apparent. With reference to this subject, there is a curious fact recorded by the president of the Horticultural Society. The fruit of a sweet almond tree, which h
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