Excerpt from Sylva Telluriana
I promised in my Flora Telluriana 1836 concluded in 4 parts and 1225 articles, to add soon after some others separately; the Trees and Shrubs being the most important and striking vegetable bodies, deserve to be foremost. They are the most valuable also by their fruits, timber, bark, medical productions, &c: yet have often been neglected by the Botanists not able to distinguish objects accurately.
It is a fact that Trees have been the last to be well ascertained and described every where: it is only lately that the Elms, Willows, Oaks and 20 other Genera of Trees have been properly distinguished even in Europe, and in North America our Oaks, Willows, Poplars, Ash trees, Grape Vines and 40 other Genera of Trees or Shrubs have been described only within a few years. Our common fruit trees were not even distinguished till Decandole attempted it, and the Plumb trees, Cherry trees, Wortle berries of N. America are yet in utter confusion with many other fruits.
And still we meet with Botanists who pretend that every thing is known, and that all our vegetable forms are ascertained and described .. !
In tropical climates where these woody forms abound, there remains still more to be achieved or even discovered.
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