Origine des Plantes cultivées Les Plantes potagères, Descrpition et Culture des principaux Légumes des Climats tempérés

Abstract

ALPHONSE DE CAN DOLLE occupies a position in the botanical world which in its way is unique. He is in a manner the doyen amongst the heads of the botanical establishments of different countries which have for their especial object the study of the earth's vegetain its taxonomic aspect. There is a special appropriateness in his being so; the Geneva botanical school, though in filiation related to the French, has always seemed to belong more to Europe than to Switzerland. The effect of this circumstance has doubtless operated indirectly on a mind naturally inclined to wide and general views. Accordingly as the invaluable “Prodromus”—the only modern work which has attempted to describe all known species of flowering plants—drew near the point at which it was decided to conclude it after occupying generations of botanists, we find De Candolle himself more and more engaged with works dealing with general questions—works which both temperament and point of view peculiarly fitted him to undertake. Such were his “Histoire des Sciences et des Savants depuis deux Siècles,” published in 1873, and his “Phytographie; ou, L'Art de décrire les Végétaux,” published more recently (1880). Origine des Plantes cultivées. Par Alph. de Candolle (Paris: Germer, Baillière et Cie., 1883.) Les Plantes potagères, Descrpition et Culture des principaux Légumes des Climats tempérés. Par Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie. (Paris: Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie.,1883.)