It was hard for me to follow what was going on in The Loves
of the Plants. Footnotes did help keep things orderly, but it was a lot to
digest in one sitting. I thought it was humorous how Darwin made such drama out
of something like plants. I don’t see how anything like this would be read
today, not even in highbrow magazines. The appeal must have been in bringing
the exoticism of botany into the living room. A contemporary version of this
type of reporting may be something like National Geographic. It does seem to
have a niche readership.
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