Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany
A botany textbook by American botanist Asa Gray, published in New York in 1858 as an introduction to plant structure for young readers and common schools. Its numbered figures are close, precise wood-engraved studies of flowers, buds and fruit parts, showing cut-away sections and parts magnified for teaching. A designer could take from them the clear, labelled diagrammatic style of mid-nineteenth-century scientific illustration, with fine hatching that defines form without shading.
