Before the middle of the 19C, American young women were being educated in botany by their families, in their schools, & through their own or borrowed textbooks. Margaret Coxe wrote in 1842, "Formerly, the study of Botany was almost exclusively confined to the medical profession, or to a limited number of philosophic minds, & accordingly the treatises on the subject were elaborate, & in many respects unsuitable to be placed in the hands of youth, and more especially of young females...But this delightful science has become at the present time a favorite with the young, refined, & delicate of our sex, & introductory publications on a plan, easy, practical & comprehensive, are now readily procurable by the ladies of our country who desire to be initiated into this branch of knowledge"
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