Excerpt from Illustrations of Vegetable Physiology, Practically Applied, to the Cultivation of the Garden, the Field, and the Forest Under these impressions the following pages have been written, and intended to bear a popular rather than a scientific character, with the sole View Of assisting, by familiar explanation, the various practice of the gardener and woodman. In fact, the principal feature of the book is an attempt to explain only what has been obscurely or too learnedly treated before; to mention cir cumstances which, though generally known, have never appeared in print; and to make up for deficient language by explanatory figures of the visible constituents of plants: the intention being. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.