Botony Books

Proserpina, Volume 1

John Ruskin

Proserpina, Volume 1, Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew.Introduction by author:Yesterday evening I was looking ..

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

K. Rangachari

This book is intended to serve as a guide to the study of grasses of the plains of South India. For the past few years I have been receiving grasses for identification, almost every week, from the off..

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing

Neltje Blanchan

A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book, has been prepared by the able hand of Mr. Asa Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that many m..

The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

Charles Darwin

There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habitually cross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either b..

Some Historic Trees

Anonymous

Probably the most ancient of these living links connecting the present and the past was the Big Tree that stood on the bank of the Genesee River, near the village of Geneseo, New York. When first seen..

Elementary Botany

George Francis Atkinson

This deals with the life processes of plants, as absorption, transpiration, conduction, photosynthesis, nutrition, assimilation, digestion, respiration, growth, and irritability. Since protoplasm is f..

Intelligence in Plants and Animals

Thomas G. Gentry

Our libraries are to-day quite affluent in books that are the handmaids of natural science. Michelet and Hugh Miller, in their day, opened glorious new worlds before a rising generation, and that gene..

The Forest Giant

Adrien Le Corbeau

One day the stream of water by which the seed was carried along sank suddenly—whirling down a funnel in the ground. Slowly the grey light of day grew less as the seed dived deeper and deeper, till in ..