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WE do not think that botany can be taught with advantage to children from books. No method of teaching seems so well adapted to the wants of junior students as that of demonstration. A flower pulled ...

THE want of special works introductory to the study of the botany of the principal tropical and southern countries of the globe has long been felt. The medical man, the student, and the amateur ...

Gardeners who have resolved this year to delve deeper into how horticulturists and botanists identify and group plants may be interested in a book that is something of a tutorial in classification ...

As physical monuments go, the 3-foot stack of botany books hardly looks imposing. But as a legacy of plant-science scholarship and education, the UC Davis texts tower above the rest. The set of ...

Author Michael Pollan talks about his new book, "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World." The book is "The Botany of Desire: A plant's-eye view of the world." In it, author Michael ...

When I was a kid, the plant world was a narrow and unlovely terrain enclosing only weeding (yuck) or soppy love poems (double yuck). But if "The Big, Bad Book of Botany" had come my way, I would have ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For the past 35 years, Alan Frost has researched the origins of modern Australia. His insights are iconoclastic and refreshing, blasting ...

Decades of searching uncovered the brilliantly illustrated plants and detailed notes made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba in the 1800s. Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering shrub found in ...