THE BOTANIST'S COMPANION,

OR AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF PRACTICAL BOTANY, AND THE USES OF
PLANTS. EITHER GROWING WILD IN GREAT BRITAIN, OR CULTIVATED FOR THE
PUROSES OF AGRICULTURE, MEDICINE, RURAL OECONOMY, OR THE ARTS.



By WILLIAM SALISBURY, OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN OF SLOANE-STREET.



"Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, and every tree
yielding fruit, and to you it shall be for meat."



VOL. II.




PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME



In demonstrating the Plants which occur in our annual herborizing
excursions, I have found it necessary to put into the hands of my pupils
some Manual of Botany; and in so doing I have found all that have yet
been published, deficient in one or two essential points, and