Punch,  5 (1843), 249.

"Bolsters for Behind-hand Botanists"

Anon

Genre:

Exam Paper, Spoof

Subjects:

Botany, Mathematics


    Series of questions and answers on botany, in which the answers are puns on botanical terms. For example, the answer to the question, 'What are the most difficult roots to extract from the ground', is, 'the Cube root'.



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