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IT would be difficult to convey an accurate idea of the large amount of information which the author has brought together within the compass of the 400 pages forming this volume, an edition of which was some years ago published by the Victoria Acclimatisation Society, and also not long since in Calcutta by the Central Government of India. While the present edition does not put in a claim for completeness, either as a specific index or as a series of notes on the respective technologic applicability of the plants enumerated, still, we have here brought together an immense assemblage of useful plants arranged in alpha betical order, but with a systematic index and also their correct scientific names, and the chief facts of interest that concern each as to its uses to mankind. Some to these plants, all of which are presumed to be capable of cultivation in extra-tropical countries, are good for food, either as yielding pot-herbage, or roots, or fruits. Others are useful for dyes, for their fibre, as fodder-plants, as medicinal plants, or as timber-trees. The information in all cases is given in the fewest possible words. Baron von Mueller is to be congratulated on the honourable part he has taken now for many years in enriching the culture-resources of his adopted country, and we echo his hope that this most valuable manual of useful plants may be placed in the leading library of every State school iu the Australian colonies, when it will be sure to aid in educating the youth instructed therein, in a special knowledge that may be of immense service in the future of Australasia.
Select Extra Tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation, with some Indications of their Native Countries and some of their Uses.
By Ferdinand Baron von Mueller New South Wales Edition, enlarged. (Sydney: Government Printers, 1881.)
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W., E. Select Extra Tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation, with some Indications of their Native Countries and some of their Uses . Nature 25, 480 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025480c0
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