"If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford."

Source : Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

Joseph Paxton

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