Download or read book The Plant World Vol 8 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 8 W'ith the present issue the plant world enters upon its eighth volume. During the seven years past, it has gradually but surely won for itself a place in botanical journalism, until now its name is familiar to all American botanists and to many lay workers, if we mav be allowed a distinction which does not always carry with it a difference. This same issue, too. Is the first under its new editorship. And accordingly it Offers a fitting Opportunity for the editor to indicate the principles which are to determine the character of the magazine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 3 The fall of 1892 was very dry, and a piece of woodland near Oakwood, Staten Island, N. Y., was burned over. Some of the swamps included in the area continued to burn for about two months in spite of several rains. To walk in one of the burnt swamps after the fire was out, was like tramping in the snow; the ashes were ankle deep and soft and fine. Many red maples two feet in diameter had fallen. There were also a few trees of other kinds. Their roots had been burned and a strong north wind, that came later, had blown them down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 22 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 22 Ecology of Roots. J. E. Weaver; Review; Effect of Fertilization on Seed of Jeffrey Pine. E. N. Munns; Enumeratio Systematica Fungorum; Note; Evidence for a Growth-inhibiting Substance in the Pear Tree. H. S. Reed and F. F. Halma; Flora of the District of Columbia; Note; Flora of the San Antonio Mountains, California. I. M. Johnston; Fossil Plants. A. C. Seward; Review; Geologic History of the Sweet Gum and Witch Hazel. E. W. Perry; Gericke, W. F. Work on Nutrient solutions; Note; Griffiths, David and Juenemann, H. E. Bulb culture; Note; Growth of Conifers. D. R. Brewster; G. A. Pearson; Review; Hall, H. M. and Goodspeed, T. H. Rubber in Chrysothamnus; Note; Hall, H. M. and Grinnell, Joseph. Life Zone Indicators; Note; Harshberger, J. W. Alpine Fell-fields; Note; Hedrick, U. P. Grape growing; Note; Henrioi, Marguerite. Physiological Problems of Photosynthesis; Review; Hill, A. F. Penobscot Flora; Note; Improved Colorimeter for Color Inheritance Study. H. F. Roberts; Infloresence of Allium. B. W. Wells; Note; Jardine, J. T. and Anderson, M. Grazing in National Forests; Note; Johnson, D. S. Proliferation in Cacti; Review; Johnston, E. S. Nutrient Requirement of the Potato Plant; Johnston, I. M. Flora of the San Antonio Mountains, California; Kidd, F. and West, C. Conditions affecting potentiality of the seed; Review; Killip, E. P. Ferns of Panama; Note; Korstian, C. F. Native Vegetation as a Criterion of Site; Kraus, E. J. and Kraybill, H. R. Conditions of Fruit-fulness; Review; Kunkel, L. O. Club Root; Review; Life Zone Indicators. H. M. Hall and Joseph Grinnell; Note; Lignum Vitae; Note; MacDougal, D. T. and Spoehr, H. A. Solution and Fixation in Biocolloids and Plant Tissues; McGregor, E. A. Relation of Irrigation to Humidity; Macquarie Island; T. F. Cheeseman; Note; Martin, J. N. New Botanical d104-book; Review; Methods in Nutrition Experiments. O. Schreiner and J. J. Skinner; Review; Michigan tree planting; Note; Monograph of the Cactaceac. N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose; Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 17 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 17 Piper, C. V. And Beattie, R. K. Flora. Of Washington and Idaho Review. Pool, R. J. Sandhills of Nebraska; Review.. Praeger, R. L. Buoyancy of Seeds; Review Praeger, R. L. Weeds; Note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 5 The Garden, as now improved, includes approximately forty-five acres, devoted to a formal flower garden, various synopses of botanical or economical significance, a fruticetum, an arboretum, and a moderate sized range of houses, some of old model and others of recent construc tion in accordance with the present practice in plant-house building. The planting in these divisions the Garden is in part formal, in part natural, and, while the transitions are not always satisfactory, the ex treme representations of the two methods are fairly successful. In the plant-houses, in addition to ranges furnished with, staging, which is best suited to the growth and display of certain kinds of plants, other ranges are devoted to representative collections of a homogeneous character, planted out in as natural a way as may be. There are, for instance, a fern house, a tree-fern tower, an acacia house, a yucca tower, and a cactus house, in which the impression produceable by each of these classes of plants is accentuated by the natural manner in which they are grown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 6 Pages 12-13, 38 - 39, 60 - 61, 87-89, 109 - 112, 138 - 139, 163-165, 187 - 189, 212 - 288. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 1 As the ferns and conifers can be most advantageously studied elsewhere, we shall take up the higher division of the flowering plants, known to botanists as Angiosperms, the name signifying plants which produce their seeds in a closed cavity called the ovary. The Angio sperms are divided into two great sections, each of which may be easily recognized, and which are of such importance that their names and characteristics should be memorized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 20 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 20 Turning to the internal growth of physiology, I wish to mention first some alterations in general physiological philosophy that have become especially evident during these twenty-five years, and afterwards to direct your attention to a few of what appear to me as import-ant forward steps in the special science of plant physiology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Plant World Vol 18 Classic Reprint written by Plant World Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World, Vol. 18 When the mercury falls the experiment is ended. If it is desirable, as it generally is, to repeat the test, and if there are no air bubbles in the bottom of the soil container, it can be done in one of two ways. Either the soil can be removed and the test begun anew, as must happen should air be found in the bottom of the container, or the following manipulation can be resorted to. Water is immediately run into the container and the soil is run through with a glass rod, after which the water is turned off and the position of the mercury noted and its rise observed as before. This operation can usually be repeated several times before the collection of air bubbles in the bottom of the soil compels the termination of the test. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Best of the World s Classics prose Volume 8 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VIII (of X) -Europe Ever since civilized man has had a literature he has apparently sought to make selections from it and thus put his favorite passages together in a compact and convenient form. Certain it is, at least, that to the Greeks, masters in all great arts, we owe this habit. They made such collections and named them, after their pleasant imaginative fashion, a gathering of flowers, or what we, borrowing their word, call an anthology. So to those austere souls who regard anthologies as a labor-saving contrivance for the benefit of persons who like a smattering of knowledge and are never really learned, we can at least plead in mitigation that we have high and ancient authority for the practise. In any event no amount of scholarly deprecation has been able to turn mankind or that portion of mankind which reads books from the agreeable habit of making volumes of selections and finding in them much pleasure, as well as improvement in taste and knowledge. With the spread of education and with the great increase of literature among all civilized nations, more especially since the invention of printing and its vast multiplication of books, the making of volumes of selections comprizing what is best in one's own or in many literatures is no longer a mere matter of taste or convenience as with the Greeks, but has become something little short of a necessity in this world of many workers, comparatively few scholars, and still fewer intelligent men of leisure. Anthologies have been multiplied like all other books, and in the main they have done much good and no harm. The man who thinks he is a scholar or highly educated because he is familiar with what is collected in a well-chosen anthology, of course, errs grievously. Such familiarity no more makes one a master of literature than a perusal of a dictionary makes the reader a master of style. But as the latter pursuit can hardly fail to enlarge a man's vocabulary, so the former adds to his knowledge, increases his stock of ideas, liberalizes his mind and opens to him new sources of enjoyment. The Greek habit was to bring together selections of verse, passages of especial merit, epigrams and short poems. In the main their example has been followed. From their days down to the "Elegant Extracts in Verse" of our grandmothers and grandfathers, and thence on to our own time with its admirable "Golden Treasury" and "Oxford Handbook of Verse," there has been no end to the making of poetical anthologies and apparently no diminution in the public appetite for them. Poetry indeed lends itself to selection. Much of the best poetry of the world is contained in short poems, complete in themselves, and capable of transference bodily to a volume of selections. There are very few poets of whose quality and genius a fair idea can not be given by a few judicious selections. A large body of noble and beautiful poetry, of verse which is "a joy forever," can also be given in a very small compass. And the mechanical attribute of size, it must be remembered, is very important in making a successful anthology, for an essential quality of a volume of selections is that it should be easily portable, that it should be a book which can be slipt into the pocket and readily carried about in any wanderings whether near or remote. An anthology which is stored in one or more huge and heavy volumes is practically valueless except to those who have neither books nor access to a public library, or who think that a stately tome printed on calendered paper and "profusely illustrated" is an ornament to a center-table in a parlor rarely used except on solemn or official occasions. I have mentioned these advantages of verse for the purposes of an anthology in order to show the difficulties which must be encountered in making a prose selection. Very little prose is in small parcels which can be transferred entire, and therefore with the very important attribute of completeness, to a volume of selections. From most of the great prose writers it is necessary to take extracts, and the chosen passage is broken off from what comes before and after. The fame of a great prose writer as a rule rests on a book, and really to know him the book must be read and not merely passages from it. Extracts give no very satisfactory idea of "Paradise Lost" or "The Divine Comedy," and the same is true of extracts from a history or a novel. It is possible by spreading prose selections through a series of small volumes to overcome the mechanical difficulty and thus make the selections in form what they ought above all things to be—companions and not books of reference or table decorations. But the spiritual or literary problem is not so easily overcome. What prose to take and where to take it are by no means easy questions to solve. Yet they are well worth solving, so far as patient effort can do it, for in this period of easy printing it is desirable to put in convenient form before those who read examples of the masters which will draw us back from the perishing chatter of the moment to the literature which is the highest work of civilization and which is at once noble and lasting. Upon that theory this collection has been formed. It is an attempt to give examples from all periods and languages of Western civilization of what is best and most memorable in their prose literature. That the result is not a complete exhibition of the time and the literatures covered by the selections no one is better aware than the editors. Inexorable conditions of space make a certain degree of incompleteness inevitable when he who is gathering flowers traverses so vast a garden, and is obliged to confine the results of his labors within such narrow bounds. The editors are also fully conscious that, like all other similar collections, this one too will give rise to the familiar criticism and questionings as to why such a passage was omitted and such another inserted; why this writer was chosen and that other passed by. In literature we all have our favorites, and even the most catholic of us has also his dislikes if not his pet aversions. I will frankly confess that there are authors represented in these volumes whose writings I should avoid, just as there are certain towns and cities of the world to which, having once visited them, I would never willingly return, for the simple reason that I would not voluntarily subject myself to seeing or reading what I dislike or, which is worse, what bores and fatigues me. But no editor of an anthology must seek to impose upon others his own tastes and opinions. He must at the outset remember and never afterward forget that so far as possible his work must be free from the personal equation. He must recognize that some authors who may be mute or dull to him have a place in literature, past or present, sufficiently assured to entitle them to a place among selections which are intended above all things else to be representative. To those who wonder why some favorite bit of their own was omitted while something else for which they do not care at all has found a place I can only say that the editors, having supprest their own personal preferences, have proceeded on certain general principles which seem to be essential in making any selection either of verse or prose which shall possess broader and more enduring qualities than that of being a mere exhibition of the editor's personal taste. To illustrate my meaning: Emerson's "Parnassus" is extremely interesting as an exposition of the tastes and preferences of a remarkable man of great and original genius. As an anthology it is a failure, for it is of awkward size, is ill arranged and contains selections made without system, and which in many cases baffle all attempts to explain their appearance. On the other hand, Mr. Palgrave, neither a very remarkable man nor a great and original genius, gave us in the first "Golden Treasury" a collection which has no interest whatever as reflecting the tastes of the editor, but which is quite perfect in its kind. Barring the disproportionate amount of Wordsworth which includes some of his worst things—and which, be it said in passing, was due to Mr. Palgrave's giving way at that point to his personal enthusiasm—the "Golden Treasury" in form, in scope, and in arrangement, as well as in almost unerring taste, is the best model of what an anthology should be which is to be found in any language.

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Download or read book The Plant World written by Frank Vincent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant World: Its Romances and Realities, a Reading-Book of Botany Looking more carefully at the difference between the two directions of the new education we can see what each accomplishes. There is first an effort to train the original powers of the individual and make him self-active, quick at observation, and free in his thinking. Next, the new education endeavors, by the reading of books and the study of the wisdom of the race, to make the child or youth a participator in the results of experience of all mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Glimpses at the Plant World Classic Reprint written by Fanny Dickerson Bergen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Glimpses at the Plant World I hope these little talks about a few Of the many wonder ful and beau tiful things in the plant-world will help you to see and understand some things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.