Botany for Gardeners - With Chapters on Plant Structure, Plant Breeding and the Life of the Germinating Seedling

"e;Botany for Gardeners"e; is a classic guide to gardening aimed at the serious gardener and green-fingered enthusiast. It includes a wealth of useful and interesting botanical information coupled with beautiful diagrams and illustrations, making it a must-read for those with an interest in the science of gardening and plant propagation. This volume would make for a fantastic addition to gardening collections collection and is not to be missed by budding botanists. Contents include: "e;The Vegetable Kingdom"e;, "e;The Flowering Plant"e;, "e;Plant Breeding"e;, "e;Mendellian Characters"e;, "e;Variegation"e;, "e;Doubleness in Stocks"e;, "e;Plant Nutrition and Plant Structure"e;, "e;The Life of the Germinating Seedling"e;, "e;The Living Plant in Relation to External Conditions"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.