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Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual
This reissue contains two works by the botanist Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829), a Cheshire clergyman's daughter. Her interest in science, and especially botany, may have been encouraged by a family connection with Erasmus Darwin, but it was not until she was in her forties that domestic circumstances drove her to professional writing. In 1797 she published Botanical Dialogues, between Hortensia and her Four Children, an introduction to the Linnaean system for use in schools. This technically rather demanding work was recast for adults in 1804 as Botanical Lectures: 'a complete elementary system, which may enable the student of whatever age to surmount those difficulties, which hitherto have too frequently impeded the perfect acquirement of this interesting science'. The more practical Florist's Manual (1816) was aimed at female gardeners, offering advice on garden design and the war against pests as well as notes on plants and cultivation.
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Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual
This reissue contains two works by the botanist Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829), a Cheshire clergyman's daughter. Her interest in science, and especially botany, may have been encouraged by a family connection with Erasmus Darwin, but it was not until she was in her forties that domestic circumstances drove her to professional writing. In 1797 she published Botanical Dialogues, between Hortensia and her Four Children, an introduction to the Linnaean system for use in schools. This technically rather demanding work was recast for adults in 1804 as Botanical Lectures: 'a complete elementary system, which may enable the student of whatever age to surmount those difficulties, which hitherto have too frequently impeded the perfect acquirement of this interesting science'. The more practical Florist's Manual (1816) was aimed at female gardeners, offering advice on garden design and the war against pests as well as notes on plants and cultivation.
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Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual

Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual

by Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual

Botanical Lectures: And The Florist's Manual

by Maria Elizabetha Jacson

Overview

This reissue contains two works by the botanist Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829), a Cheshire clergyman's daughter. Her interest in science, and especially botany, may have been encouraged by a family connection with Erasmus Darwin, but it was not until she was in her forties that domestic circumstances drove her to professional writing. In 1797 she published Botanical Dialogues, between Hortensia and her Four Children, an introduction to the Linnaean system for use in schools. This technically rather demanding work was recast for adults in 1804 as Botanical Lectures: 'a complete elementary system, which may enable the student of whatever age to surmount those difficulties, which hitherto have too frequently impeded the perfect acquirement of this interesting science'. The more practical Florist's Manual (1816) was aimed at female gardeners, offering advice on garden design and the war against pests as well as notes on plants and cultivation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108067027
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/20/2014
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Pages: 388
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

Advertisement; Analysis of the first part of the botanical lectures; Analysis of the second part; Part I: Lecture 1. The seven parts of fructification explained; Lecture 2. A flower dissected: the different kinds of fulcra and inflorescence explained; Lecture 3. The first eighteen classes, with their orders, explained; Lecture 4. Examination of flowers belonging to different classes. The classes 19, 20, 21 and 22, explained; Lecture 5. Class Polygamia explained; Caprification. Class Cryptogamia explained; Part II: Lecture 1. Genera of plants; Lecture 2. Nectaries of plants; Lecture 3. Investigation of different genera of the classes one-house and two-houses. Of ferns; Lecture 4. On the mosses, flags, and funguses. Musci, algae and fungi; Lecture 5. On the grasses; Lecture 6. Specific distinctions, and double flowers; The Florist's Manual; A catalogue of common herbaceous plants.
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