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The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *« ] SECT. III. Directions for bringing over Seeds and Plants from diftant Countries. Nor ev’rv plant on ev’ry foil will grow; The fallow loves the watry ground, and low; The marfhes, alders : Nature feems t’ ordain The rocky clift for the wild afli’s reign ; The baleful yeugh to northern blahs affigns; To Ihores the myrtles; and to mounts the vines EVERY part of the world has its peculiar productions •, and in no objects of natural hittory is the variety more entertaining, than in the vegetable kingdom. The gardens of the curious have already been enriched with many valuable acquifitions from diftant countries •, but many attempts alfo to introduce feveral other plants equally rare, have been unfuccefsfully made, owing to the bad ftate of the feeds or plants when firft procured, or the method of difpofmg of them during long voyages, and fuch accidents as the utmoft precaution cannot prevent. The ingenious J. Ellis, F. R. S. has favoured the world with the moft judicious ob- iervations on the prelent fubjecft, which may (/) Nec vero terras ferre omnes omnia podunt. Fluminibus falices, craflifque paludibus alni Nafcuntur, denies faxoiis montibus orni, Littora myrtetis lstiifima : denique apertos Bacchus amat colies; aquilonem et frigora taxi* Virg. G.,11. 109® c 3 foon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30511495_0001_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
