TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loudon
TI  - Botany for ladies, or, A popular introduction to the natural system of plants, according to the classification of De Candolle
T2  - Cambridge library collection
SN  - 9781107590007 (ebook)
AV  - QK94 .L78 2015
U1  - 580 22
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Plants
KW  - Classification
KW  - Botany
N1  - "This edition first published 1842. This digitally printed version 2015"--Title page verso; Includes index; Includes original title page and imprint: London : John Murray, 1842
N2  - Jane Loudon (1807–58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany specifically for women. Her enthusiasm for plants and gardening was encouraged by her husband, the landscape designer John Claudius Loudon, whom she married in 1830. Her Instructions in Gardening for Ladies (also reissued in this series) was enormously successful, and she followed it up in 1842 with this volume on botany, in which she uses the natural system of classification. The 'grand object' of the work is 'to enable my readers to find out the name of a plant when they see it … or, if they hear or read the name … to make that name intelligible to them'. She takes her readers through the botanical orders, using a familiar plant as an exemplar for each, and then presents de Candolle's systematic description of plant species
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107590007
ER  -