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R. P. FAULKNER An Introduction to Plant Life
New York USA, W. H. & L. Collingridge, 1950. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, N. B. Hodgson Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback The author has been able to tell the story of the evolution of plants and explain how plants live and grow in a simple style that a gardener with no previous scientific knowledge can understand. The germination of the seed, growth, nutrition, flowering, seed production and eventually the death of the plant are considered. A chapter on inheritance explains how the gardener is able to interfere with the course of evolution by systematic plant breeding. Illustrated. 120 pp. .
Offered for GBP 5.00 = appr. US$ 8.18 by: The London Bookworm - Book number: 044963
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