Download or read book Makers of North American Botany written by Harry Baker Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Makers of North American Botany written by H. B. Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Makers of North American Botany review written by Joseph Ewan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botanica North America written by Marjorie Harris and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that the smell of sassafras blowing offshore convinced Columbus he was near land? Or that the American sycamore, which has the largest tree trunk in the eastern forest, can live for 500 to 600 years? Or that in the period before the American Revolution, patriots designated a sycamore tree in each colony as a "Liberty Tree" -- a meeting place for plotting against the British? These facts are just a few of thousands you'll find inBotanica North America, an encyclopedia of the wonderfully diverse North American native plants by noted Canadian garden writer Marjorie Harris. This charming compendium is filled with more than 420 entries that provide essential information on each plant's physical attributes, natural history, common uses, and ethnobotany. There are also fascinating, often surprising anecdotes about plants you won't find anywhere else. From the Eastern forest to the desert, this beautifully written volume roves across the continent exploring how climate and plant life have affected, aided, and inspired us, from the first Native Americans to North Americans living in the twenty-first century: "The lonely majesty of a wind-swept jack pine has inspired generations of poets and painters," Harris writes. "These trees endure in spite of terrible weather . . . a jack pine forest has a dense, closed canopy with an understory of cherry, blueberry, hazels, bracken, and sweet fern along with trailing arbutus." Comprehensive and engaging, Botanica North America is also filled with lush photographs of plants in their natural habitat and insightful quotes from a variety of gardening experts and amateurs, from naturalist Rachel Carson to famed conservationist John Muir. Here is a reference no gardener or environmentalist should be without.
Download or read book John Torrey written by Andrew Denny Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torrey was the center around which the botany of North America first became systematized. To him came most of the botanical materials gathered by all the great expeditions of his time, the military and geographical explorations and the railroad surveys that tapped the west from Canada to Mexico. He was the instructor, consultant, or associate of every prominent North American botanist of the day, and together with Asa Gray, once his pupil, he produced the Flora of North America, the first great systematic work on a continental scale in the New World.
Download or read book Andr Michaux in North America written by André Michaux and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx,” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
Download or read book Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants written by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States. Also complete identifying information, 343 illustrations. "You can't go wrong." — Botanic & Herb Reviews.
Download or read book Three Centuries of Botany in North America written by Rockefeller University and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Flora and Botany of North America a Supplemental Flora written by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genera of North American Plants written by Thomas Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native American Ethnobotany written by Daniel E. Moerman and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1998 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.
Download or read book North American Botany written by Amos Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Address written by Asa Gray and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America written by Laurence Johnson and published by New York : W. Wood. This book was released on 1884 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Clayton written by Edmund Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica, published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia. Originally published in 1963. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Manual of Botany for North America written by Amos Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Botany Comprising the Native and Common Sultivated Plants North of Mexico Genera Arranged According to the Artificial and Natural Methods written by John Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-25 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
