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POPIJLAE
ECONOMIC BOTANY;
OR,
DESCRIPTION OP THE BOTANICAL AND COMMERCIAL CHARACTERS
OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OP VEGETABLE ORIGIN, USED
FOR POOD, CLOTHING, TANNING, DYEING, BUILDING,
MEDICINE, PERFUMERY, ETC.,
Illustrated from the Liverpool Collection of the Great Exhibition.
B y T . C . a r c h e r , E sq ,
CO L L E C T O R O E E C O N O M IC B O T A N Y TO T H E N E W CR YS TA L P A L A C E .
“ Mr. Archer’s volume, we are surprised to find, is the first
popular book that has been devoted exclusively to the commercial
products of the Vegetable Kingdom—of that which constitutes
nine-twelfths of the whole commerce in raw produce giving employment
to our vast mercantile marine..............We can heartily
recommend this most useful and entertaining little book.”—
Examiner.
“ Every production of the vegetable world which tends to the
use, the comfort, or the luxury of mankind, is noticed in its
pages The illustrated figures of the principal among them
have been executed in a style hitherto only to be found in the
most costly works of descriptive Botany.”—LeicestershireMercwy.
“ This volume is replete with interesting and valuable information,
bringing home, even to the man of business, many facts
respecting the articles in which he deals, with which he was, in
all probability, previously unacquainted, and awakening in the
general reader a new interest respecting productions with which
he was practically more or less familiar, but of whose history he
was more or less completely ignorant.”— Glohe.
“ Practically and scientifically qualified for his task, Mr. Archer
has succeeded in giving his information with clearness and conciseness,
so vital to the success of every popular manual.”—
—Britannia. _________ __________
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