This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... THE DAHLIA. HISTORY OF THE DAHLIA. For ages before even the New World itself was discovered, there existed on the mountain plains of Mexico, a wild, neglected weed, called by the natives Acocotli. There, in its native prairies, it performed its part in the great chain of creation, year by year ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... THE DAHLIA. HISTORY OF THE DAHLIA. For ages before even the New World itself was discovered, there existed on the mountain plains of Mexico, a wild, neglected weed, called by the natives Acocotli. There, in its native prairies, it performed its part in the great chain of creation, year by year blooming, and fading, and dying, but it attracted no interest, excited no admiration, and imparted no pleasures, unless perhaps its large fleshy tubercules furnished, at some period, a rude meal to the wild and barbarous Toltecans. In course of time the Spaniards occupied Mexico; a new field was opened up for conquest and for science, and, accordingly, we find that every facility was afforded for investigating the natural productions of the newly-acquired territory: of these the vegetable kingdom furnished numerous and interesting examples. "T-The first naturalist who was sent to explore the hitherto unknown treasures of the New World, was Franciscus Hernandez, physician to Philip the Second of Spain, under whose patronage, and at a great cost the mission was undertaken. In such a country, where no botanist had ever trodden, the success which attended his labours was of course very great. So extensive were his discoveries, and so new and varied were the forms of animal and vegetable existence which he described, the scientific men of that age regarded his statements with suspicion, and in some instances did not fail to express their incredulity in what they supposed to be the traveller's fabulous assertions. Notwithstanding however the opinions which at the time were current, it is now found that in every particular he was correct in what he had stated. Hernandez did not live to superintend the publication of his discoveries; but after his death...
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