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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Origin of Cultivated Plants
Alphonse de Candolle
634 pages~12 hr 38 min read17 chapters$4.99
Where did wheat, the apple, the potato first grow wild? Alphonse de Candolle became a detective of botany, tracing our crops back to their homelands through history, language and geography. A founding work in the study of where food comes from. Follow the world's cultivated plants back to their birthplaces.
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Inside this book
17 chapters
- 1ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTS.
- 2AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4PART I.
- 5CHAPTER I.
- 6CHAPTER II.
- 7PART II.
- 8CHAPTER I.
- 9CHAPTER II.
- 10CHAPTER III.
- 11CHAPTER IV.
- 12CHAPTER V.
- 13PART III.
- 14CHAPTER I.
- 15GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES.
- 16CHAPTER II.
- 17INDEX.
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