Plant Culture Books

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..

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..

Floral Illustrations of the Seasons

Margaret Roscoe

In the arrangement of this Work, the Author has aimed at some degree of novelty in the design, as well as of utility in the information. To her own sex, to whose particular notice she offers it, she t..

Roses - or, a Monograph of the Genus Rosa by active 1799-1828

Henry Cranke Andrews

THE Rose, for matchless beauty famed, (although by botanists so disregarded) has been the Painter’s study and the Poet’s theme, for ages past, and will no doubt for ages yet to come; long after many a..

The Almond in California

R. H. Taylor

The almond is the first of the deciduous fruit trees to start growth and come into bloom in the spring, and normally the last one to shed its leaves in the fall. In other words, it has a very short pe..

The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira

Florence Du Cane

The very name of Madeira (or island of timber, as the word signifies) brings to the minds of most people a suggestion of luxuriant vegetation flourishing in a damp, enervating climate. The feelin..

The Book of Alfalfa: History, Cultivation and Merits

F. D. Coburn

The author believes in alfalfa; he believes in it for the big farmer as a profit-bringer in the form of hay, or condensed into beef, pork, mutton, or products of the cow; but he has a still more abidi..