The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chap. XXXVI

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING VEGETABLES. - (Concluded.) If to this lower planet we advert, Seat of our birth and nurture, proofs abound Of infinite contrivance, matchless skill.

Whether the site or figure we regard, Or distribution of the various parts Perfective of the system, strokes appear Too exquisite for bungling chance to hit.

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