The object of the foregoing chapters has been, not a scientific treatise on Botany, but to show how comparatively simple and easy it is, and what a pleasure it is, to know something — a great deal — about plants. Recreations in Botany - Страница 210написао/ла Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey - 1893 - 216 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 1898 - 258 страница
...nature and her many forms of vegetable life and beauty. Its object, to quote the words of the author, is -not. a scientific treatise on botany, but to show how comparatively simple and easy it is, and \\linl a pleasure i( is, to know something — a great deal — alum! plants." It is as a recreation,... | |
| John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - 1893 - 594 страница
...waving like gigantic cobwebs." Miss (or is it Mrs.?) Creevey declares, at the end of her book, that "the object of the foregoing chapters has been, not...what a pleasure it is, to know something — a great deal--about plants." This naivete" recalls the apt rebuke of an American humorist, "It's better not... | |
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