Jane Loudon (1807-58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening
world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany
specifically for women. Her enthusiasm for plants and gardening was
encouraged by her husband, the landscape designer John Claudius
Loudon, whom she married in 1830. Her Instructions in Gardening for
Ladies (also reissued in this series) was enormously successful,
and she followed it up in 1842 with this volume on botany, in which
she uses the natural system of classification. The 'grand object'
of the work is 'to enable my readers to find out the name of a
plant when they see it ... or, if they hear or read the name ... to
make that name intelligible to them'. She takes her readers through
the botanical orders, using a familiar plant as an exemplar for
each, and then presents de Candolle's systematic description of
plant species.
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