Download or read book The Flora of the Alps, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred William Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Flora of the Alps, Vol. 1 of 2 The Flora of the Alps is a subject of never-failing interest even to the casual visitor to the "playground of Europe." Probably nowhere on the face of the globe is to be found, especially in the spring and early summer, a greater wealth of brightly coloured flowers, often growing in enormous masses, festooning the rocks, and making of the alpine pastures a veritable floral carpet; and the interest is greatly increased by the ease with which many of them can be cultivated in our flower-beds or on our rockeries. The scope of the present work does not fall in exactly with that of any other in the English language. Its object is to provide the tourist with a handbook by which he can recognise the plants which are likely to attract his attention in his Alpine wanderings. There are excellent Floras of Switzerland, of which the best is Gremli's, translated by Paitson (Nutt); but the area of that book is strictly confined to the Republic of Switzerland. 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.