The Vegetable Kingdom Lindley Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108077224

The Vegetable KingdomOr, the Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants Illustrated upon the Natural System\nAuthor(s): John Lindley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108077224, 978-1108077224\nSynopsis\nEmployed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley [tel] is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his various works on taxonomy and classification. This work, one of his most famous, was first published in 1846; reissued here is the revised third edition of 1847. Lindley describes his motive as being 'to make his countrymen acquainted with the progress of Systematic Botany abroad' given that the 'superficial and useless system of Linnaeus' was now consigned to history. The work, nonetheless an imp.