. Le Royaume floral : son histoire, le sentiment et la poésie : un dictionnaire de plus de 300 plantes, avec les genres et les familles auxquelles elles appartiennent, et la langue de chaque illustré avec les pierres précieuses à la poésie . Langage des fleurs ; les fleurs dans la littérature. jSgstpms flssifirfltiom ^[. C'est que .HO a inventé un système de classification des plantes est incertaine ; depuis l'époque où Salomon, roi d'Israël, l'ofi parla "d'arbres de le cèdre qui est au Liban jusqu'à l'hysope qui croît hors de l'walj ;" ou celles de Zoroastre, qui est dit avoir appris que

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. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. jSgstpms of ^[flssifirfltiom. .HO it was that first invented a system of classification of plants is uncertain; Since the days when Solomon, king ofi Israel, "spake of trees from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the Hyssop that springeth out of the walj;" or those of Zoroaster, who is said to have taught that the pi-ime%-al creative power called forth from the blood of the sacred biill 120, 000 forms of plants; or earlier still, if the reader wishes, since the time when primitive man began first to observe and wonder at his surroundings, until the present hour, the glory of the vegetable creation has necessarily excited his admiration. The Chaldsean shepherds, who are credited with the discovery of astron- omy, through their undisturbed contemplation of the "flowers of heaven, " could not have been entirely unmind- ful of the " stars of earth, the beautiful flowers." Theophrastus (b. c. 374-2S6), a Greek philosopher and pupil of Aristotle, wrote a " History of Plants, " and a work " On the Causes of Plants, " which evince not a little knowledge of the organs and physiology thereof. Pliny the Elder (a. d. 23-79), ⢠^'â '^ great compilation, the "â Thirty-seven Books of Histories of Nature, " gives many curious bits of information in reference to about one thousand plants. Dioscorides, who flourished about one hundred years later, described five hundred plants; and his work is remarkable as being the source of much of the terminology still used in our books on floriculture. Scientific botany, however, owes its rise to the revival of letters in the sixteenth century. Otto Brunfels (1464-1534) is considered the first among the moderns t

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