Botany for Gardeners - With Chapters on Plant Structure, Plant Breeding and the Life of the Germinating Seedling“Botany for Gardeners” is a classic guide to gardening aimed at the serious gardener and green-fingered enthusiast. It includes a wealth of useful and interesting botanical information coupled with beautiful diagrams and illustrations, making it a must-read for those with an interest in the science of gardening and plant propagation. This volume would make for a fantastic addition to gardening collections collection and is not to be missed by budding botanists. Contents include: “The Vegetable Kingdom”, “The Flowering Plant”, “Plant Breeding”, “Mendellian Characters”, “Variegation”, “Doubleness in Stocks”, “Plant Nutrition and Plant Structure”, “The Life of the Germinating Seedling”, “The Living Plant in Relation to External Conditions”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening. |
Contents
Plant Breeding | |
Plant Nutrition and Plant Structure | |
The Living Plant in Relation to External Conditions | |
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Botany for Gardeners - With Chapters on Plant Structure, Plant Breeding and ... Frederick W. Keeble No preview available - 2010 |
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