The Plants of Southern New Jersey, Vol. 1

Download or read book The Plants of Southern New Jersey, Vol. 1 written by Witmer Stone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plants of Southern New Jersey, Vol. 1: With Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species The writer began his botanical studies in Chester County, Pennsylvania, under the guidance of the classic Flora C estm'ca of Dr. Darlington, and was fairly familiar with the plant life of this portion of the Piedmont country before he ever visited the Coastal Plain to the eastward. The first trip to the Pine B'ar rens, at Egg Harbor City, July 21, 1889, he will probably never forget. It was one of those delightful little excursions of botanists which, once a week, left Philadelphia for a day's tramp, under the leadership of the late Dr. J. Bernard Brinton. Nearly everything was new, and the contrast between the flow ers of this wonderful Pine country and the more prosaic flora of Pennsylvania's agricultural district made an impression and started an inquiry that were largely responsible for the produc tion of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.