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020 _a9781107590007 (ebook)
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_b.L78 2015
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100 1 _aLoudon,
_cMrs.
_q(Jane),
_d1807-1858,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBotany for ladies, or, A popular introduction to the natural system of plants, according to the classification of De Candolle /
_cJane Loudon.
246 3 0 _aPopular introduction to the natural system of plants, according to the classification of De Candolle
246 1 8 _aBotany for ladies
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 493 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection
500 _a"This edition first published 1842. This digitally printed version 2015"--Title page verso.
500 _aIncludes index.
500 _aIncludes original title page and imprint: London : John Murray, 1842.
520 _aJane 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.
650 0 _aPlants
_vClassification.
650 0 _aBotany.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108075633
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107590007
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