Botany For Gardeners
Brian Capon, holding a Ph.d. in botany, with 30 years experience as a professor of Botany, is an outstanding writer. He showed his ability to take a fairly complicated subject and write in a style that won’t turn off those without a college ... [... more]
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Introductory Botany: Plants, People, and the ...
 Clear and engaging, Linda Berg's INTRODUCTORY BOTANY: PLANTS, PEOPLE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT helps you develop an appreciation of the diverse organisms we call plants, including their remarkable adaptations to the environment and their evolutionary and ... [... more]
$157.95
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Christmas Botany (Part Ii)- The Best Christmas Tree?
But modern times were soon upon us and Melita's began expanded their tree choices to include Scotch Pines. These blue-green stiff branched, stiff needled upstarts seemed most wonderful. They had actually been grown to be Christmas trees and had ... [... more]
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Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, Herb Of Remembrance
Plants are a major source of the symbolism we use to celebrate our winter holiday seasons. Plants provide us with an unlimited supply of virtues which we seek to incorporate into our belief systems. Over centuries and eons we have adopted certain ... [... more]
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Interstate Botany: Comments On Interstate Highway ...
Let me share some of my observations regarding interstate highway vegetation management here in Virginia. My first observation has to be that it is highly variable. From one county to the next, the degree of ... [... more]
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Botany 101: Self-Scoring Quiz
When you're ready to begin, just click on the answer you think is correct. A small box will appear to let you know if you're right. ... [... more]
Garden Gate |
A Book Review- Botany For Gardeners
After the partial respite of Part III, we jump back into the science side of Botany in Part IV, Functions. These two chapters deal with plant physiology, the inner workings of plants- how they do what they do. The ... [... more]
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The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens
By Richard Evans Schultes, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Albert Hofmann, Basel, Switzerland. With Forewords by I. Newton Kugelmass and Henrich Kluver. The Second Edition of this book encompasses all of the advances that have been made ... [... more]
$80.95
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany (Oxford ...
This unique dictionary is an authoritative and up-to-date reference book on all aspects of the study of plants. While many of the over 5,000 entries in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany have been taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of ... [... more]
$14.95
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Sex, Botany and Empire
Read this for a science project Carl Linnaeus was responsible for revolutionizing the way modern science classifies and organizes all living organisms. His simple system based on the sexual characteristics of plants shocked society and inspired other ... [... more]
$14.45
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The Meaning of Trees: Botany, History, Healing, Lore
The tree is beloved as Mother Nature's visible symbol of power and grace. The Meaning of Trees is a beautiful celebration of their lore and spirit, botany and history. Genera from aspen to willow are captured in 70 dramatic photographs that illustrate ... [... more]
$35.00
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Basic Botany
The vascular system in the stem or trunk of a plant carries nutrients from the roots to the leaves and back again. It also stores food for the plant and supports the leaves. The cambium, the layer of tissue just under the bark that carries ... [... more]
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