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Excerpt from Cultivated Plants: Their Propagation and Improvement To study culture, and with artful toil TO 'meliorate and tame the stubborn soil; To give dissimilar yet fruitful lands The grain, the herb, the plant that each demands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847 in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, England - 1905 in Dublin, Ireland) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries.Burbidge was born in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on March 21, 1847, the son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit grower.Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick as a student in 1868, and in the same year he went to the Royal Gardens, Kew. Here he showed skill as a draftsman and was used in part to draw pictures of plants in the herbarium. Leaving Kew in 1870, he was on the staff of the...