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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Essential Atlas of Botany
 An informative guide I find the Essential Atlas of Botany to be an informative guide. With a total of 96 pages, this English-language edition was released in 2004. This guide has helped me to gain a better understanding of plant life. There are ten ... [... more]
CDN$10.95
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Botany Coloring Book
This study technique works well for me. At first you have to hide the fact that at, age 53, you are using a coloring book! Nevertheless I have stuck with it through a number of pages and have found out that my retention and ability to recall through ... [... more]
CDN$23.50
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Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
Useful With Many Shortcomings Note that this book is written for scientists. It will not appeal to readers looking for an introduction to the opium poppy, nor those who are not fairly well educated in chemistry and biology. For those looking for ... [... more]
CDN$38.09
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Economic Botany: Plants in our World
Comprehensive This book is a comprehensive introduction to the botany of economically important plants. Approximately half the book is devoted to food plants, with separate chapters for temperate fruits, tropical fruits, grains, legumes, and vegetables. ... [... more]
CDN$115.84
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Marijuana Botany
Read the FULL TITLE of the book! Marijuana Botany: An Advanced Study In the Propagation & Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis ADVANCED. This is NOT the book to read if you have never grown or have no knowledge of basic concepts of growing marijuana. ... [... more]
CDN$25.04
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Working in his garden one day, The Botany of Desire author Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex ... [... more]
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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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Corn Lily - The Species Ixia
In 1962 a revision was done by G. J. Lewis in the Journal of South African Botany and in his introduction he states: " This attractive genus of the Iridaceae, endemic to the Cape Province, was introduced into gardens in England and Europe two ... [... more]
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Christmas Botany (Part I)- Oh Tannenbaum
Oh Tanenbaum, Oh Tanenbaum - The Christmas Tree, perhaps the most common botanical symbol of Christmas in the western world, at least in North America. There seem to be many legends surrounding the beginning of the custom of cutting an evergreen ... [... more]
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Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, Part Ii
Known by its Latin name Rosmarinus officinalis, it is a native to the Mediterranean region where it grows into a small shrub. Another of the legends surrounding the plant is that it will never grow taller than Jesus. Should it outlive his 33 ... [... 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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