Excerpt from Botanical Guide Through the Phipps Conservatories in Pittsburg and AlleghenyAs a first attempt in this direction, this book may have its short comings the author will be glad to receive suggestions as to how it can be improved. Meanwhile this guide is sent out with the author's wish and hope that it may find favor with the public, that it may increase the interest in the plants cultivated in the Conservatories, and in ¿ower culture in general, that it may add to the delight in beauty, the pleasures which closer acquaintance gives.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.