Botany: The Science of Plant Life
The prickly pear ( Opuntia chlorotica santarita ) of the desert in the American Southwest. ( This painting was kindly loaned by Dr. David Griffiths of the United States Department of Agriculture and reprinted here through the courtesy of the Journal of the International Garden Club, where it first appeared. ) Courtesy Journal of the International Garden Club
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GARRETT P. SERVISS AUTHORS WILLIAM J. MILLER HIPPOLYTE GRUENER A. RUSSELL BOND D. W. HERING LOOMIS HAVEMEYER ERNEST G. MARTIN ARTHUR SELWYN-BROWN ROBERT CHENAULT GIVLER ERNEST INGERSOLL WILFRED MASON BARTON WILLIAM B. SCOTT ERNEST J. STREUBEL NORMAN TAYLOR DAVID TODD CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN ROBIN BEACH ARRANGED IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES WITH A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, GLOSSARIES AND A GENERAL INDEX ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME THIRTEEN P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright 1922 By P. F. Collier & Son Company MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.
The Science of Plant Life BY NORMAN TAYLOR Curator, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY NEW YORK
Norman Taylor
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BOTANY
1. Flowering Plants
2. Flowerless Plants
1. Light and Its Importance To the Plant
2. How Plants Get Their Food and Water From the Earth
3. Borrowing From the Living and Robbing From the Dead
4. What Plants Do With Water and How They Breathe
5. Restless and Irritable Plants
1. Visible Marriage of Flowering Plants
2. Hidden Marriage of Flowerless Plants
Plant Names and How They Are Acquired
PLANT FAMILIES AND ORDERS
Some Monocotyledonous Plant Families
Dicotyledonous Plant Families
1. Foods
2. Beverages
3. Fibers
4. The Story of Rubber
5. Drugs
6. The Story of Tobacco
7. Spices
EVERGREENS
DECIDUOUS TREES
SHRUBS
GARDEN HERBS
COLOR, SEASON, AND HEIGHT OF HARDY PERENNIALS
ANNUALS
1. Dawn of Plant Life On Earth
2. The Development of Land Plants
3. Carboniferous Plants and the Formation of Coal
4. More Recent Ancestors of Our Modern Flora
5. Present-Day Plants and Where They Come From
6. How Plants Change Their Characters and Become New Species
1. Dispersal By Animals, the Wind, and Water
2. Invasion, Migration, and Relics
3. Home Economy of Plants, or Ecology
4. Some of the Chief Plant Societies
