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  BOTANY FOR LADIES;

  OR,

  A POPULAR INTRODUCTION

  TO THE

  Natural System of Plants,

  ACCORDING TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF DE CANDOLLE.

  BY

  MRS. LOUDON,

  Author of "Instructions in Gardening for Ladies," "Year-Book of
  Natural History," &c. &c.

  LONDON:
  JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

  MDCCCXLII.


LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS




PREFACE.


When I was a child, I never could learn Botany. There was something in
the Linnean system (the only one then taught) excessively repugnant
to me; I never could remember the different classes and orders, and
after several attempts the study was given up as one too difficult
for me to master. When I married, however, I soon found the necessity
of knowing something of Botany, as well as of Gardening. I always
accompanied my husband in his visits to different gardens; and when we
saw beautiful flowers, I was continually asking the names, though alas!
these names, when I heard them