Author: Lady Caroline Catharine WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Weeds and Wild Flowers
Author: Lady Caroline Catharine WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Natural History Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Includes the transactions of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Cuvierian Society, and Dublin Natural History Society.
Weeds
Author: Nina EdwardsPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234848
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A wide-ranging scientific and cultural history of weeds that reveals just how interesting and useful these seemingly annoying plants can be. We spray them, pluck them, and bury them under mulch; and we curse their resilience when they spring back into place. To most of us, weeds are a nuisance, not worth the dirt they are growing in. But the fact is weeds are a plant just like any other, and it is only we who designate them as a weed or not, as a plant we will dote over or one we will tear out of the earth with abandon. And as Nina Edwards shows in this history, that designation is constantly changing. Balancing popular history with botanical science, she tells the story of the lowly, but proud, weed. As Edwards shows, the idea of the weed is a slippery one, constantly changing under different needs, fashions, and contexts. In a tightly controlled field of corn, a scarlet poppy is a bright red intruder, but in other parts of the world it is an important cultural symbol, a potent and lucrative pharmaceutical source, or simply a beautiful, lakeside ornament. What we consider a pest—Aristolochia Rotunda, or “fat hen”—was, in Neolithic times, a staple crop, its seeds an important source of nutrition. Sprinkled with personal anecdotes and loads of useful information, Weeds sketches history after history of the fashions and attitudes that have shaped our gardens, showing us that it is just as important what we keep out of them as what we put in, and that just because we despise one species does not mean that there haven’t been others whose very lives have depended on it.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of Brooklyn
Author: Catalogue of the Brooklyn Library
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: A-C
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Author: