The Florist's Directory - Or a Treatise on the Culture of Flowers; To Which Is Added a Supplementary Dissertation on Soils, Manures, &C #247624

But notwithftanding the long and con tinned attention which feveral in England and Holland have given to this branch of horticulture, the art of cultivating plants in general, and flowers in particular, is yet fo imperfectly underflood, and may probably long remain to be fo, that an extenlive field for improvement and dif covery prefents itfelf to the intelligent.