As a child Loudon found the Linnaean system impossible; married to the garden writer John Claudius Loudon, she was embarrassed by every flower she could not name. So she wrote the introduction she had needed, explaining De Candolle’s natural system order by order, from buttercups and poppies to the great flowering families.
A warm and practical book from an early science-fiction novelist that helped open botany to women readers. Download the free EPUB.