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Select Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation in Victoria: With Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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IN the volumes, issued by our Acclimation Society from 1871 to 1875 four contributions have appeared, concerning such industrial plants as are available for culture in this colony. These writings were mainly offered with a view of' promoting the introduction and diffusion of the very many kinds of plants, which in our geographic latitudes may be extensively reared in forests, on fields or pastures. The prints, thus originated, became however accessible merely to the members of the Society, while frequent calls arose for these or some Similar data throughout our community. The Whole has therefore now been reissued in a rearranged and largely supplemented form as, a departmental publication with ministerial approval. As stated in the preface to the original essays, they do not claim completeness either as a Specific index or as a series of notes on the respective technologic applicability of the plants' enumerated. But what these writings perhaps may aspire to is the aim of bringing to gether closely-arrayed some condensed notes in popular language on all the principal utilitarian plants hitherto known to pro'sper in extra-tropic zones. Information of this kind is widely scattered through many and often voluminous works in several languages, yet such volumes treating perhaps on countries with a climatic zone -far more narrow than ours. Only a share of the books, which it was desirable to consult, were at my command, hence the necessity of successive further supplements, even irrespective of'
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- Publication date2024
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- ISBN 13 9781528421447
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