Botany for Ladies: Or, A Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants, According to the Classification of De Candolle (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) - Softcover

Loudon, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108075630 ISBN 13: 9781108075633

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Jane Loudon (1807-58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany specifically for women. In this 1842 volume on botany, she takes her readers through the orders of plants, and then presents de Candolle's systematic description of plant species.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108075630
• ISBN 13: 9781108075633
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 516