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FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN; OF THE ACADEMIES OF ST. PETERSBU...
2. PART I.3. PART II.4. PART III.5. CHAPTER I.THE traditions of ancient peoples, embellished by poets, have commonly attributed the first steps in agriculture and the introduction of useful plants, to some divinity, or at l...
6. CHAPTER II.1. _General reflections._ As most cultivated plants have been under culture from an early period, and the manner of their introduction into cultivation is often little known, di...
7. PART II.8. CHAPTER I.The radish is cultivated for what is called the root, which is, properly speaking, the lower part of the stem with the tap root.[27] Every one knows how the size, shape, and col...
9. CHAPTER II.The cabbage in its wild state, as it is represented in _Eng. Bot._, t. 637, the _Flora Danica_, t. 2056, and elsewhere, is found on the rocks by the sea-shore: (1) in the Isle o...
10. CHAPTER III.The clove used for domestic purposes is the calix and flower-bud of a plant belonging to the order of Myrtaceæ. Although the plant has been often described and very well drawn f...
11. CHAPTER IV.The original home of this and other cultivated Anonaceæ has been the subject of doubts, which make it an interesting problem. I attempted to resolve them in 1855. The opinion at...
12. CHAPTER V.The genus _Theobroma_, of the order _Byttneriaceæ_, allied to the _Malvaceæ_, consists of fifteen to eighteen species, all belonging to tropical America, principally in the hott...
13. CHAPTER I.Explanation of the signs used in the table: (1) annual, (2) biennial, [Z] perennial, ['5] small shrub, [/5] shrub, [5] small tree, [F5] tree. The letters indicate the certain or...
14. CHAPTER II.In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the origin of most of our cultivated species was unknown. Linnæus made no efforts to discover it, and subsequent authors merely copie...
15. part 2, p. 114; and Boissier, _Flora Orientalis_, iv. p. 1175.[1779] These questions have been discussed with learning and judgment by four authors: Link, _Ueber die ältere Geschichte der Getreide Arten_, in _Abhandl. der Berlin Akad._, 18...