Jane Loudon ‎(‎1807‎-58‎)‎‎,‎ the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world‎,‎ wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany specifically for women‎.‎ Her enthusiasm for plants and gardening was encouraged by her husband‎,‎ the landscape designer John Claudius Loudon‎,‎ whom she married in 1830‎.‎ Her Instructions in Gardening for Ladies ‎(‎also reissued in this series‎)‎ was enormously successful‎,‎ and she followed it up in 1842 with this volume on botany‎,‎ in which she uses the natural system of classification‎.‎ The ‎'‎grand object‎'‎ of the work is ‎'‎to enable my readers to find out the name of a plant when they see it ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎or‎,‎ if they hear or read the name ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎to make that name intelligible to them‎'‎‎.‎ She takes her readers through the botanical orders‎,‎ using a familiar plant as an exemplar for each‎,‎ and then presents de Candolle‎'‎s systematic description of plant species‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Jane Loudon
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781108075633