Peter Parley's Cyclopedia Of Botany: Including Familiar Descriptions Of Trees, Shrubs, And Plants (1838) - Softcover

Parley, Peter; Goodrich, Samuel Griswold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1437143385 ISBN 13: 9781437143386

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

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Peter Parley's Cyclopedia of Botany: Including Familiar Descriptions of Trees, Shrubs, and Plants is a comprehensive guide to the world of botany, written by the American author and educator, Peter Parley. Originally published in 1838, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in learning more about the plant kingdom. The book is divided into several sections, each of which covers a different aspect of botany. The first section provides an overview of the science of botany, including its history, principles, and terminology. The next section focuses on the classification of plants, describing the different types of plants and how they are classified. The bulk of the book is devoted to the descriptions of individual plants, including trees, shrubs, and flowering plants. Each entry provides a detailed description of the plant's appearance, habitat, and uses, as well as information on its cultivation and propagation. The descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations, which help readers to identify the plants and appreciate their beauty. In addition to the descriptions of individual plants, the book also includes a section on plant physiology, which explains how plants grow and develop, and a section on plant pathology, which describes the various diseases and pests that can affect plants. Overall, Peter Parley's Cyclopedia of Botany is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of plants, written in a clear and engaging style that will appeal to both amateur and professional botanists alike.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860) was an American author better known by his pen name Peter Parley. Goodrich was the son of a Congregational pastor and was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Goodrich was mostly self-taught and worked as an assistant at a rural store in Danbury, Connecticut, which he left in 1808, and afterwards in Hartford, Connecticut, until 1811. He worked as a bookseller and publisher in Hartford from 1816 to 1822. From 1823 to 1824, he traveled throughout Europe before relocating to Boston in 1826. He purchased 45 acres (180,000 m2) in adjacent Roxbury in 1833 and built a mansion in what is now Jamaica Plain. There he remained in the publishing business, and from 1828 until 1842 he published The Token, an illustrated annual to which he contributed both prose and lyric. He returned to America and wrote Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom in 1859. He died in New York and was buried in Southbury, Connecticut, where he had lived briefly.

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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1437143385
• ISBN 13: 9781437143386
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
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