Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Select Plants, Vol. 1: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation in Victoria, With Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses
In grouping together at the close of this volume all the genera, enumerated according to the products, which they yield, facility is afforded for tracing out any series of plants, regarding which special economic information may be sought, or which may at any time prominently engage the attention of the cultivator, the manufacturer or the artisan. Again, the placing together in index-form of the respective industrial plants according to their geographic distribution, as has likewise been done in the concluding pages, has rendered it easy, to order or obtain from abroad the plants of such other countries, with which any settlers or colonists may be in relation, through commercial, literary or other intercourse. Lists like the present may also aid in naming the plants and their products with scientific correctness in establishments of economic horticulture or in technologic or other educational collections. If the line of demarcation between the plants, admissible into this list and those which should have been excluded, has occasionally been extended in favor of the latter, then it must be pleaded, that the final value of any particular species for a peculiar want, locality or treatment cannot always be fully foretold. Doubtless, many plants of primary importance for rural requirements, here again alluded to, have long since been secured by intelligent early pioneers of immigration, who timely strove to enrich the cultural resources of their adopted country. In these efforts the writer, so far as his public or private means would permit, has endeavored for more than a quarter of a century to take an honor able share. But although such plants are introduced, they are not in all instance as yet widely diffused, nor tested in all desirable localities. For the sake of completeness even the most ordinary cultural plants have not been passed, as the opportunity seemed an apt one, to offer a few cursory remarks on their value also.
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