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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Beginners' botany
Liberty Hyde Bailey
215 pages~4 hr 18 min read36 chapters$4.99
Every plant is fighting to live, and Liberty Hyde Bailey makes that struggle the way in. His beginner's botany moves from the contest for survival and plant societies to the plant body, seeds, germination, and roots, all in clear classroom steps. A warm first course in how plants work. Start seeing the green world as a living struggle.
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Inside this book
36 chapters
- 1BEGINNERS’ BOTANY
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I NO TWO PLANTS OR PARTS ARE ALIKE
- 5CHAPTER II THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE
- 6CHAPTER III THE SURVIVAL OF THE FIT
- 7CHAPTER IV PLANT SOCIETIES
- 8CHAPTER V THE PLANT BODY
- 9CHAPTER VI SEEDS AND GERMINATION
- 10CHAPTER VII THE ROOT—THE FORMS OF ROOTS
- 11CHAPTER VIII THE ROOT.—FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE
- 12CHAPTER IX THE STEM—KINDS AND FORMS; PRUNING
- 13CHAPTER X THE STEM—ITS GENERAL STRUCTURE
- 14CHAPTER XI LEAVES—FORM AND POSITION
- 15CHAPTER XII LEAVES—STRUCTURE OR ANATOMY
- 16CHAPTER XIII LEAVES—FUNCTION OR WORK
- 17CHAPTER XIV DEPENDENT PLANTS
- 18CHAPTER XV. WINTER AND DORMANT BUDS
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