Download or read book Select Plants, Vol. 1 written by Ferd Von Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Plants, Vol. 1: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation in Victoria, With Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses In the volumes, issued by our Acclimation Society from 1871 to 1875, four contributions have appeared, concerning such industrial plants as are available for culture in this colony. These writings were mainly offered with a view of promoting the introduction and diffusion of the very many kinds of plants, which in our geographic latitudes may be extensively reared in forests, on fields or pastures. The prints, thus originated, became however accessible merely to the members of the Society, while frequent calls arose for these or some similar data throughout our community. The whole has therefore now been reissued in a rearranged and largely supplemented form as a departmental publication with ministerial approval. As stated in the preface to the original essays, they do not claim completeness either as a specific index or as a series of notes on the respective technologic applicability of the plants enumerated. But what these writings perhaps may aspire to is the aim of bringing together closely-arrayed some condensed notes in popular language on all the principal utilitarian plants hitherto known to prosper in extra-tropic zones. Information of this kind is widely scattered through many and often voluminous works in several languages, yet such volumes treating perhaps on countries with a climatic zone far more narrow than ours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.