Practical Botany
Ginn and Company, 1911. first edition. hardcover. Duodecimo 545pp. from authors' preface: "As here set forth, the study of plants is related to everyday life more closely than is usually done. Those aspects of plant life are presented which have the largest significance to the public in general, and which are of interest and educative value to beginning students. The book includes the principles of plant nutrition, the relation of plant nutrition to soils and climate and to the food of animals and men; it discusses some of those diseases of plants, animals, and men, which are produced by parasitic plants; the propagation of plants, plant breeding, forestry, and the main uses of plants and plant products are given in an elementary way." very good: age wear to boards, edge and corner wear, some scuffing, spine sunned, toning to pastedowns and FFEP, text clean, binding tight. / no DJ. Item #350
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