. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. ^itisions of ]^$p '^pgpfaMp Kinsi^oni*. REAT interest is naturally felt by all amateur culturists in the divisions of the vegetable kingdom. Ages before the knovi^ledge of plants developed into the complete science called botany, certain relationships and affinities were known to exist between many of them; but the formal distrib
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. ^itisions of ]^$p '^pgpfaMp Kinsi^oni*. REAT interest is naturally felt by all amateur culturists in the divisions of the vegetable kingdom. Ages before the knovi^ledge of plants developed into the complete science called botany, certain relationships and affinities were known to exist between many of them; but the formal distribution into the subjoined divisions and subdivisions is a comparatively receflt addition, and has been adopted by scholars for the purpose of placing before the mind in a clear and methodical manner the various degrees of relationship that exist between plants. An exhaiisti ve enumeration in the present state of botanical science embraces the following twelve heads: Series or Subkingdom, Class, Subclass, Order or Family, Suborder, Tribe, Subtribe, Genus, Subgenus or Section, Species, Race, and Variety. To aid the student of floriculture in forming a clearer con- ception of the arrangement, relationship and subordination of the different members of this distribution, the whole vegetable kingdom might be likened to the available war forces of the United States. The Series would correspond to the military as distinct from the naval, and vice versa; Class, to the regular army as distinct from volunteers, or the reverse; Subclass, to the "Army of the Potomac," or the like; Order, to army corps; Suborder to division; Tribe, to a brigade with its full complement of cavalry, artillery and infantry; Subtribe, to the more usual incomplete brigade of two or three regiments; Genus, to a regiment; Subgenus, to a battalion; Species, to a com- pany; Race, to a company of infantry as distinct from one of cavalry; and Variety, to the same company with the shades of difference arising f
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