Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
- Henry, Mary Jackson
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 6^ ] botanical name with the common one of the flowers, you have had occafion to mention, Charles. We could not do this by memory, but were obliged to look for them in the bo- tanical books, which however anfwered our trouble; for finding them accented in the tranflated Genera Plantarum, we were h6 longer afraid of pronouncing them, and in a little time I dare fay, we fhall find the bo- tanical names as eafy to remernber as th6 common ones. Hortenf. I wifh you to attend to this; the confufion aidfing from the negledt of the ufe of proper names is fo great, that a know- ledge of them cannot be too foon acquired, and their being accented makes it now not difficult to pronounce them. Harr. I would rather all plants had Eng- lifh names ; I fliall be afraid of fpeaking the botanical names though they arc accented, left I fhould be thought conceited. Hortenf. You may avoid that evil by a dif- creet ufe of them. Such cenfures are gene- rally made by ignorant people, but cannot be juftly incurred, unlefs you make a difplay of your knowledge of the botanical'names, by ofhcioufly ufing them for flowers univer- faily](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28762514_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
