ILLUSTRATIONS m OF THK NATURAL ORDERS OF PLANTS GROUPS AND DESCRIPTIONS BT ELIZABETH TWINING "I REDUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL FOLIO EDITION /(fP VOL I LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, CROWN SON, BUILDINGS, 188 AND MAKSTON, FLEET STREET 1868 (The Right uj Ti-vuilatioH u nftrvcd by Ihc iulUor.) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign LONDON - SrRAKOEWATS ASD WaI-DEN rWNTERS, Castle St Leicestej Sq http://www.archive.org/details/illustrationsofn01twin ; 580 V, INTRODUCTION J —— ^ Of * all the varied objects of creation there and delight affords so ranch gratification bining so many is, to probably, no portion that mankind various qualities of utility and beauty, and being as they are so widely spread abroad in the world, valleys, Com- as plants and the mountains ; in — over the plains, the depths of the earth, and in the the waters of the ocean, the lakes, and the rivers, and every pond and pool in the hottest regions of the tropics, and extending even to the frozen lands of the Arctic zone, they claim attention everywhere, and in all ^ times, in a pre-eminent degree From when the simple and abundant daisy yields recreations, until the close of when ^ there vj ^ is life, the earliest years of childhood, one of the most valued flowers are planted on the grave, no period when some of the countless variety of plants not way minister in some and ancient authority to our comfort and enjoyment for the study of plants We There is read that he to high whom ^ was given " wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness o of heart," ci east