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Botany for young people and common schools, how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings
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Green cover with illustrations of flora in black ink, also figures in centre working in a garden, planting, with a wheelbarrow and other tools, a building in background. Illustrations are very faded. Text in varied font on decorative ribbons intertwined in foliage.

Botany for young people and common schools, how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings

Dateapproximately 1870s
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FormatBook
Notes
Pages 104¹-104⁴ inserted between 104-105
Originally published in 1858
Includes index
The library also has microfiche copy classed in: FILM F CIHM 24382 
 Asa Gray, M.D., Fisher professor of natural history in Harvard University
Subject
    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
    Books
    DimensionsCover size: 20 cm x 16 cm (7 7/8 in. x 6 5/16 in.)
    Language
      CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object Number37131099669210D
      Catalogue Record for Print Book https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=2736989
      Medical flora; or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. In two volumes
      Medical flora; or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. In two volumes
      Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
      1828-1830
      Cover has green marbled paper design with green leather border along spine. No text or illustra…
      Medical flora; or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. In two volumes
      Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
      1828-1830
      The hand-book of plain botany, or, Linnæan lessons on common plants for field and garden practice : for the use of schools and self-instruction
      The hand-book of plain botany, or, Linnæan lessons on common plants for field and garden practice : for the use of schools and self-instruction
      Bradbury & Evans
      1834
      Bingley's practical introduction to botany : illustrated by references under each definition to plants of easy access, and by numerous figures : comprising also a glossary of botanic terms
      Bingley's practical introduction to botany : illustrated by references under each definition to plants of easy access, and by numerous figures : comprising also a glossary of botanic terms
      Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
      1827
      Class-book of botany: being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants with a flora of the United States and Canada
      Class-book of botany: being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants with a flora of the United States and Canada
      Wood, Alphonso
      1861
      A catechism of botany : being a pleasing and familiar description of the vegetable kingdom : in which the Linnæan classification of plants has been adhered to, and suitable examples of each class given
      A catechism of botany : being a pleasing and familiar description of the vegetable kingdom : in which the Linnæan classification of plants has been adhered to, and suitable examples of each class given
      G.B. Whittaker
      1828
      Flora Americae septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America, containing, besides what have been descri(...)
      Flora Americae septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America, containing, besides what have been descri(...)
      Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820
      1814
      The child's botany : containing much pleasing and instructive information concerning the properties, habits, & classification of British and foreign plants, expressed in a style adapted to the understandings of young persons : with plates
      The child's botany : containing much pleasing and instructive information concerning the properties, habits, & classification of British and foreign plants, expressed in a style adapted to the understandings of young persons : with plates
      Davidson
      1835
      English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants / edited by John T
      English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants / edited by John T
      Bell, George
      1870-1892
      An introduction to botany : in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
      An introduction to botany : in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
      B. and R. Crosby and Co.
      1812
      An introduction to botany : in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
      An introduction to botany : in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
      Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
      1823
      Catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, garden seeds and green-house plants, bulbous roots & flower seeds, cultivated and for sale at the Toronto nursery, Dundas street, near York
      Catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, garden seeds and green-house plants, bulbous roots & flower seeds, cultivated and for sale at the Toronto nursery, Dundas street, near York
      Custead, William W.
      1827