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Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Or, Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain

Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Or, Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain

Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland
Chamberlin, Agnes Fitzgibbon
Chamberlin, Agnes Fitzgibbon

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

Botany & HorticultureGeneral Nature

ISBN10: 110803375X
ISBN13: 9781108033756
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2011
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Catharine Parr Traill (1802-99) was a writer, botanist and settler who emigrated from England to Canada with her husband in 1832. Both she and her sister, Susanna Moodie, became well known for their writing on settler life: Traill is also the author of The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide. This 1885 publication is the most comprehensive of her botanical works. Plants are grouped together by family and the book is divided into four sections: native flowers, flowering shrubs, forest trees and native ferns. Written to inspire the Canadian public to share her passion for the plant life of their country, the book has an engaging style where anecdotes and literary quotations appear alongside detailed descriptions and classification information. Traill's niece, Agnes Chamberlin, is the book's illustrator. A beautiful example of nineteenth-century popular botany, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the subject.

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