Excerpt from Outlines of Botany, Vol. 2: Including a General History of the Vegetable Kingdom, in Which Plants Are Arranged According to the System of Natural Affinities

Elementary works are of necessity compilations in many parts. It is their lowly yet useful ofiice to glean on every side, and aided by all their fellow labourers in the fields of science, who fling the liberal handfuls from every shock, to form a common sheaf for the sustenance of those who are as yet too young to work, or too weak in knowledge to gather for themselves.

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