Excerpt from Handbook of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants: Containing Descriptions, Native Countries, Etc of a Selection of the Best Species in Cultivation; Together With Cultural Details, Comparative Hardiness, Suitability for Particular Positions, Etc
The growing love of horticulture, both in England and America, is continually demanding new hand-books cf botanical knowledge. Although a most attractive science, the study of botany has, until within a very few years, received but little attention; there have been few scholars and few teachers. The garden in which grow the fairest of the children of nature has been surrounded by an almost impenetrable hedge of technicalities, of uninteresting detail, and seemingly unmeaning nomenclature; so that few have had the courage to attempt to break through so formidable a barrier.
Although never wholly ignored, the study of botany, as pursued in our schools and colleges, has been a mere farce; while recognized as a branch of study, no special attention has been devoted to it, and no branch of natural science has been so completely neglected.
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