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North American Wildlife
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Reader's Digest, Robert Dolezal, Of Readers Digest Editors
Includes more than 2,000 plants and animals. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest and prairie. Includes color-coded name tabs for all 16 sections, habitat guides, maps and 2000 color portraits (1 for every plant and animal).
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Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
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Lawrence Newcomb, Gordon Morrison (Illustrator)
Lawrence Newcomb's system of identification on wild flowers is based on natural structural features that are easily visible to the untrained eye and enables amateurs and experts to identify almost any wildflower quickly and accurately.
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A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America
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Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator), Mariner Books, Margaret McKenny
Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you're most likely to encounter in the eastern and north-central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada.
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Language of flowers
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Kate Greenaway (Illustrator)
Wonderfully illustrated book by famed 19th-century illustrator lists over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents -- tulip = fame; blue violet = faithfulness, etc. Flower-related verses at back of book. 85 full-color illustrations.
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From Seed to Plant
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Gail Gibbons
Explores the intricate relationship between seeds and the plants which they produce.
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From Seed to Pumpkin
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Wendy Pfeffer, James Graham Hale (Illustrator)
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie or carved into jack-o'-lanterns, and pumpkin seeds can be roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? Full color.
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Introduction to Plant Physiology
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William G Hopkins
Uses interactions between the plant and the environments as a foundation for developing plant physiology principles-light and plant development, temperature effects, etc. Discusses the role of plants on specific ecosystems and global ecology and provides information on the cell, chemical background, plant growth regulators and biochemistry. This ...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
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John W Thieret, William A Niering, Nancy C Olmstead
The bestselling National Audubon Society field guides to North American wildflowers have been brought to a new level of beauty, accuracy, and usefulness. More than 700 new full-color photos, showing every species both in close-up and in its natural setting, highlight these updated guides. New introductions provide clearer and more complete ...
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials
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Ellen Phillips
At last, a perennial encyclopedia that gardeners can really use--not just look at. It presents 161 major perennial entries, plus hundreds of species and cultivars, all described in detail in the encyclopedia section with complete growing and landscaping information. Charts and tables provide current information on every aspect of perennial ...
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The Ecology of Plants
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Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M Scheiner, Gordon A Fox
This thoroughly revised and updated book is now in full colour and augmented by many new illustrations and references. Brighter than ever, "The Ecology of Plants" covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Throughout ...
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Plant form an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology
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Bell
The diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering and even daunting, as can the terminology used to describe them. An understanding of plant form - plant morphology - is essential to appreciating the wonders of the plant world and to the study of botany and horticulture at every level. In this ingeniously ...
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Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach
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Walter Judd, Christopher Campbell, Peter Stevens
Incorporating phylogenetic principles and methods throughout, this text moves from the careful explanation of phylogenetic methods and principles to the taxonomic survey of vascular plant families. A much expanded CD-ROM is included, containing over 2,200 colour photographs illustrating the diagnostic characters of plant families covered in the ...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
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William A Niering, Nancy Olmstead
Nothing is as colorful as a field of wildflowers in full-bloom so what could be more appropriate than a magnificent field guide with beautiful full-color photographs? More than 1,000 species are covered in full detail, with notes on more than 400 others. The 700 identification photographs show wildflowers-including grasses and sedges, and many ...
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Oh Say Can You Seed?: All about Flowering Plants
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Bonnie Worth, Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator)
With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2--and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles--the Cat in the Hat examines various parts of plants, seeds and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and seed dispersal.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region
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Richard Spellenberg, National Audubon Society
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Flower
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Christopher Beane (Photographer), Anthony F Janson (Text by)
Christopher Beane's extraordinary work moves beyond the cliches of flower photography and has reinvigorated the genre with a different kind of intensity and vision, making flower images new again. Avoiding the hackneyed and sentimental, Beane's photographs have earned him comparisons to Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Weston, Brice ...
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An island garden
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Celia Thaxter
Thaxter spent much of her life on Isles of Shoals, off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In this classic volume, first published in 1894, she describes how she made her garden grow in this challenging environment. Childe Hassam's paintings and chapter illuminations are included.
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Wild flowers of the United States
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Harold William Rickett
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Apples
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Gail Gibbons
Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown.
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Weeds
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Howard Bjornson, Chronicle Books LLC
This photographic volume presents weeds in a different light, showing them as persistent, handsome, strong, and beautiful plants.
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Flower Confidential
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Amy Stewart
The flower business is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless. Stewart explores the relevance of flowers, and in the process she reveals all that has been gained--and lost--by tinkering with nature.
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Flowers
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Robert Mapplethorpe
The theme of flowers recurs throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic work. Some of the 50 flower images in this miniature collection, all in colour, date from the early 1980s, but many of date them from the months leading to his death in 1989.
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I Am a Leaf
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Jean Marzollo, Judith Moffatt (Illustrator)
A simple introduction to the life cycle and functions of a leaf.
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Pumpkins
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Ken Robbins
Striking, full-color photographs show the lifespan of a pumpkin from a tiny seed to a blooming vine, then a small gourd, and finally a jack-o-lantern lighting up a dark Halloween night, in this beautiful picture book. Includes instructions on how to safely carve a jack-o-lantern.
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Bulbs
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John E Bryan
This project documents "true" bulbs, plus corms, rhizomes, and tubers from some 230 genera. The first edition won a Quill & Trowel Award in 1990; this new revision has updated nomenclature and more than 300 additional colour photographs.
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