The Botany of the Eastern Borders Author:George Johnston Subtitle: With the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and of the Customs and Beliefs Which Have Been Associated With Them General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: J. Van Voorst Subjects: Botany Plants Nature / Flowers Nature / Plants Science / Life Sciences / Botany Notes: This ... more »is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Johnson. " Make a large Book; a folio." Boswell. " But of what use will it be, Sir ?" Johnson. " Never mind the use: do it." " It is my duty to study, and, if possible, to devise expedients for restoring me from this useless and melancholy state. Now, all experience assures me that regular occupation is that expedient; and it is my duty, if I find myself unequal to the severity of my usual exercises, to devise slighter subjects of employment which can be resorted to in the time of necessity. This I esteem to be an important part of moral discipline." -- Chalmers. Life, i. p. 165. THE NATURAL HISTORY THE EASTERN BORDERS. THE FLORA. " Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, Yet, wildings of Nature, I doat upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold." T. Campbell. " What beauties does Flora disclose! How sweet are her smiles upon Tweed!" Crauford. " For bothe Flora and Zephyrus, They two that makin flouris growe, Had made ther dwelling there. I trowe." Chaucer. chapter{Section 4 The names of the Plants indigenous to the district are printed in Roman Letters; of naturalized species in italics; and of plants cultivated for their utility in fields and plantations, the name is ...« less