Abstract
THAT a good manual of economic botany is really wanted no one who knows anything of the subject will deny, and pending the appearance of a satisfactory book any contributions towards such an end must be accepted with thanks, always supposing that those contributions are trustworthy and intelligible. Articles by competent writers on the various products of the vegetable kingdom are to be found in encyclopædias, and occasionally special subjects are taken up and worked out by individual writers; but the great want is a thoroughly good book treating of the whole range of economic plants.
The Uses of Plants: a Manual of Economic Botany, with special reference to Vegetable Products introduced during the last Fifty Years.
By G. S. Boulger. (London: Roper and Drowley, 1889.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 40, 292–293 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040292a0
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