Download or read book Cactus Culture for Amateurs written by William Watson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cactus Culture written by W. Watson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Cactus Culture by W. Watson
Download or read book The Saguaro Cactus written by David Yetman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings. The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.
Download or read book Introduction to Succulents Cacti Cacti Culture for Newbies written by Dueep Jyot Singh and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Introduction to Succulents The General Cultivation of Succulents and Cacti Temperature Air and Light Watering Soil Planting Your Succulents Growth from leaves Growing Your Plants through Cuttings Repotting and replanting Growing succulents through offsets Saving Your Cacti from Pests and Diseases Aphids Mealy bugs Thrips Red spiders Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction The moment you hear the word “cactus,” you immediately visualize an arid desert, with the poor lonesome cowboy riding away into the sunset on his trusty horse, singing “I am far away from home,” with a buzzard eyeing him greedily, and a cactus somewhere in the background, looming over him. If you have seen this in one spaghetti western, you have seen it in all… But cacti and succulents are just not prickly pears, and Opuntias not to be touched by Mowgli, while he is singing along with Baloo unless he wants a Paw full of spines and thorns. All over the world, people have finally woken up to the potential of cactus and succulent plants as indoor as well as outdoor beautifiers of surroundings, especially when they are planning to plant ornamental plants, which have adapted themselves down the centuries to every sort of condition, and they can survive. This book is for those people, who have decided to know more about cactuses and succulents. Man is an instinctive collector of things, from orchids to butterflies. Once he found that all over the world, he could get more than 500,000 different varieties of succulents and cacti, he decided to add these plants to his collection repertoire. That is the reason why botanists are so fascinated with the lifestyle of these living objects, so that they can see the different natural development and changes which take place with the passing of time during the growth cycle of these particular plants.
Download or read book Cactus Culture written by Franz Buxbaum and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cactus collecting; Geography and climate of the cactus countries; Cultivation of cacti based on biological principles; Cultivation of epiphytic cacti; Seed-raising; Propagation by cuttings; Imported plants; Grafting; Pests and diseases; Calendar of work; Taxonomy and nomenclature; Descriptions genera.
Download or read book Cactus Culture for Amateurs written by William Watson and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cactus Culture written by Ellen Schulz Quillin and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cactus Culture for Amateurs written by William Watson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cactus Culture for Amateurs" by William Watson is a creative masterpiece that indicates simply how skilled the writer is at combining classical evaluation with ordinary expertise. Watson artwork is extra than only a guide to the complicated global of cactus lifestyle; they may be an experience into the fascinating world of those flora. Watson writing on this book goes past what you'll anticipate from an ordinary educational guide. He efficaciously combines medical records with real-lifestyles stories to make his records useful for each novices and professionals within the area of cactus gardening. Watson's intention is not only to clear up problems, but also to connect humans with every other and assist them learn more approximately the natural international. Watson's new and enthusiastic technique is what makes "Cactus Culture for Amateurs" so stunning. He affords readers to a wide variety of feelings and studies about developing cacti thru stylish however dependable writing. The book is appealing due to the fact it can make the tough artwork of developing cacti both interesting and academic. William Watson's writing is greater than simply preparation; it is an inventive journey that draws readers into the charming world of cacti at the same time as making sure that his works are exciting and on hand to a wide variety of readers.
Download or read book Cactus written by Dan Torre and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cacti are full of contradictions. Although many are found in the driest and most barren environments on earth, some grow exclusively in the branches of the rainforest canopy. Many species bristle with ferocious-looking spines, while other varieties are perfectly smooth. And while they might strike us as the most austere plants on earth, nearly all of them exhibit remarkable floral displays—some even larger than the plant itself. In Cactus, Dan Torre explores these unique plants as they appear all around the world and throughout art, literature, and popular culture. As Torre shows, cacti have played a prominent role in human history for thousands of years. Some species were revered by ancient civilizations, playing a part in their religious ceremonies; other varieties have been cultivated for their medicinal properties and even as a source of dye, as in the case of the prickly pear cactus and the cochineal insect, the source of red carmine used in everything from food to lipstick. Torre examines how cacti have figured in low-footprint gardens, as iconic features of the landscapes of Westerns, and as a delicious culinary ingredient, from nutritious Nopal pads to alluring Pitaya—or Dragon—fruits. Entertaining and informative, this book will appeal to any of us who have admired these hardy, efficient plants.
Download or read book Cactus Culture for Amateurs written by W. WATSON and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cactus Culture written by Ellen D. Schulz and published by McIntosh Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Cacti written by David Yetman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to ArgentinaÑoften in rough terrain and on barren, parched soils, places inhospitable to people. But as David Yetman shows, many of these tall plants have contributed significantly to human survival. Yetman has been fascinated by columnar cacti for most of his life and now brings years of study and reflection to a wide-ranging and handsomely illustrated book. Drawing on his close association with the Guarij’os, Mayos, and Seris of MexicoÑpeoples for whom such cacti have been indispensable to survivalÑhe offers surprising evidence of the importance of these plants in human cultures. The Great Cacti reviews the more than one hundred species of columnar cacti, with detailed discussions of some 75 that have been the most beneficial to humans or are most spectacular. Focusing particularly on northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, Yetman examines the role of each species in human society, describing how cacti have provided food, shelter, medicine, even religiously significant hallucinogens. Taking readers to the exotic sites where these cacti are foundÑfrom sea-level deserts to frigid Andean heightsÑYetman shows that the great cacti have facilitated the development of native culture in hostile environments, yielding their products with no tending necessary. Enhanced by over 300 superb color photos, The Great Cacti is both a personal and scientific overview of sahuesos, soberbios, and other towering flora that flourish where few other plants growÑand that foster human life in otherwise impossible places.
Download or read book Cactus Culture written by Ellen D. Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cactus Culture for Amateurs written by William Watson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gleanings in Bee Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sharon Cactus Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Xerophile Revised Edition written by Cactus Store and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth, taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives “A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”—The New Yorker From the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile, a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessives—from PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher—this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos. Xerophile brings together eighty years’ worth of these explorers’ remarkable images from some of the world’s most remote habitats: a peculiar two-leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow-covered mountains in Bolivia, sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico, are pollinated by bats in Brazil, and grow in pure lava fields of the Galápagos Islands.
