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Excerpt from A System of Vegetables: According to Their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, With Their Characters and Differences
HE future improvements in agriculture, in g medicine, and in many inferior arts, as' dying, atanning, varnifhing; with many of the more important Manufactures, as of paper, linen, corda'ge muft principally arife from the knowledge of B0 'tany'. 'for how can we afcertain the more recon d-ite properties of bodies, without firfl being able to dif'tinguifh them from each other? From the want of this fcience almof'c all the medicines, and many of the arts og the ancients have been loft to their def cendants. 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.
