Excerpt from The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants: The Growth and General Flower Farm System of Raising Fragrant Herbs BY universal consent the physical faculties of man have been divided into five senses, - seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. It is of matter per taining to the last-mentioned faculty that this book mainly treats. Of the five senses, that of smelling is the least valued, and, as a consequence, is the least tutored; but from this, our own act, we must not conclude that it is of insignificant importance to our welfare and happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.