People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Botany. [ARTICLE]

Botany.

Botany was scientifically discussed by Aristotle about 847 B. C He is acknowledged to be the father of the science. Works on botany appeared in several European languages about the close of the fifteenth century, general attention being at that time directed toward the study of this science. The first ehcyclopedia of plants appeared in 1829.