Botany: The Science of Plant Life

For perhaps the largest number of readers the chief value of plants is what they furnish in the way of food, clothing, fuel, and so forth, and from this standpoint alone the stu...

What we commonly call plants, such as corn or buttercups or an oak tree, are so familiar that a definition of what plants are may seem needless. It would be quite so if these ge...

There is perhaps no device of nature that more perfectly accomplishes its purpose than the one with which all living things are endowed--the instinct for the renewal of life. In...

We have seen in the previous chapters how many and how varied are the activities of the plant world and in this final one we shall get a glimpse of what these activities have pr...

Practically all that has been said in the first chapter relates to what plants are, their organs, or what we may call the architecture or plan of their framework. But what they...

The quotation from the second sentence of the first chapter of Genesis tells us more in eight words than could very well be said in as many chapters. Not only have we biblical a...

There are perhaps over 150,000 different kinds of flowering plants known in the world to-day, but the flowerless ones are fewer than these in numbers. No one really knows how ma...

Not only does the plant world furnish us with all the multitudinous products that we have already noticed, but it makes possible the beautifying of our homes and parks. For with...

This book is for those who want some general knowledge of the plant world, without necessarily caring for the technical details upon which such knowledge is based. If it leaves...