Author: John Murphy
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Plants of the Victorian High Country allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts. The guide features a glossary of botanical terms, straightforward identification keys, clear photos of the leaves, flowers and stems of the plant, and includes notes on Aboriginal plant usage. If you are a nature lover, planning to walk in the Victorian High Country, this book is an essential addition to your backpack.
Plants of the Victorian High Country
Author: John Murphy
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Plants of the Victorian High Country allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts. The guide features a glossary of botanical terms, straightforward identification keys, clear photos of the leaves, flowers and stems of the plant, and includes notes on Aboriginal plant usage. If you are a nature lover, planning to walk in the Victorian High Country, this book is an essential addition to your backpack.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Plants of the Victorian High Country allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts. The guide features a glossary of botanical terms, straightforward identification keys, clear photos of the leaves, flowers and stems of the plant, and includes notes on Aboriginal plant usage. If you are a nature lover, planning to walk in the Victorian High Country, this book is an essential addition to your backpack.
The Native Plants of Victoria
Author: Ferdinand von Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Novel Cultivations
Author: Elizabeth Hope Chang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813942476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book looks at the transnational circulation of both people and plants as a feature of Victorian speculative fiction"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813942476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book looks at the transnational circulation of both people and plants as a feature of Victorian speculative fiction"--
A Census of the Plants of Victoria
Author: Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Catalogue of Plants Under Cultivation in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Alphabetically Arranged
Author: Royal Botanic Gardens (Vic.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanical gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanical gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Victorian Floral Illustrations
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486248224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Over 340 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings selected from two classic Victorian publications: Paxton's Flower Garden and The Natural History of Plants. Includes exquisite renderings of a broad spectrum of plant forms: baobab tree, quaking grass, winged pea, and many other unusual plants. Each illustration includes the scientific name and brief description.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486248224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Over 340 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings selected from two classic Victorian publications: Paxton's Flower Garden and The Natural History of Plants. Includes exquisite renderings of a broad spectrum of plant forms: baobab tree, quaking grass, winged pea, and many other unusual plants. Each illustration includes the scientific name and brief description.
The Wardian Case
Author: Luke Keogh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, and yet many of the most common varieties have roots in Asia. How is this global flowering possible? In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. But when a fern and meadow grass sprouted from the soil, he accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in glass containers could survive for long periods without watering. After four years of experimentation in his London home, Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world. Following a test run from London to Sydney, Ward was proven correct: the Wardian case was born, and the botanical makeup of the world’s flora was forever changed. In our technologically advanced and globalized contemporary world, it is easy to forget that not long ago it was extremely difficult to transfer plants from place to place, as they often died from mishandling, cold weather, and ocean salt spray. In this first book on the Wardian case, Luke Keogh leads us across centuries and seas to show that Ward’s invention spurred a revolution in the movement of plants—and that many of the repercussions of that revolution are still with us, from new industries to invasive plant species. From the early days of rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona cultivation—the last used in the production of the malaria drug quinine—to the collecting of beautiful and exotic flora like orchids in the first great greenhouses of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, and England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fueled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environment.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, and yet many of the most common varieties have roots in Asia. How is this global flowering possible? In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. But when a fern and meadow grass sprouted from the soil, he accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in glass containers could survive for long periods without watering. After four years of experimentation in his London home, Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world. Following a test run from London to Sydney, Ward was proven correct: the Wardian case was born, and the botanical makeup of the world’s flora was forever changed. In our technologically advanced and globalized contemporary world, it is easy to forget that not long ago it was extremely difficult to transfer plants from place to place, as they often died from mishandling, cold weather, and ocean salt spray. In this first book on the Wardian case, Luke Keogh leads us across centuries and seas to show that Ward’s invention spurred a revolution in the movement of plants—and that many of the repercussions of that revolution are still with us, from new industries to invasive plant species. From the early days of rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona cultivation—the last used in the production of the malaria drug quinine—to the collecting of beautiful and exotic flora like orchids in the first great greenhouses of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, and England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fueled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environment.
Key to the System of Victorian Plants ...
Author: Ferdinand von Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Plants Indigenous to The Colony of Victoria
Author: Ferdinand Mueller
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375034849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375034849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
The Weeds, Poison Plants and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria
Author: Alfred James Ewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poisonous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poisonous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description