Plants from Abroad: Botanical Terminology in 18th-century British Encyclopaedias by Elisabetta Lonati

“…. […] and what useful and ornamental purposes may be expected from the cultivation of it [i.e. botany]” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1771, s.v. Botany). More often than not, these terms represented migrating plants coming from exotic places, new geographical areas, whether eastwards or westwards. …”
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