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Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon Publisher Comments A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded and updated to include an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index. Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new edition even richer... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Weeds of the West (5th edition) by Tom Whitson Publisher Comments Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture by Michael Dirr Publisher Comments Compiled by two distinguished professors of horticulture, The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation is a must for professionals and students of horticulture. Over 1,100 species and their propagation requirements by seeds, cuttings, grafting and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel Publisher Comments Learn to identify plants by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for identification and that they often have similar uses.... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz Publisher Comments How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insects tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather? For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Staff Pick It's not easy being green. Mostly, everything else eats you. But some plants fight back with thorns and poisons. Some plants are: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Michael Pollan may be incapable of uninteresting writing. Discerning and lucid, his works tend to provoke the reader to engage themselves (at least in thought, if not deed) well beyond the final page. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education is Pollan's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Botany for Gardeners an Introduction & Guide by Brian Capon Synopsis A clear, nontechnical explanation of how plants work, and our bestselling book. It succeeds in explaining the complex processes of plant growth, functions, adaptation, responses, and reproduction in simple language. As the author intended, the gardener... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton Publisher Comments Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The History and Social Influence of the Potato by Redcliffe Salaman Publisher Comments First published in 1949, this remarkable book is the culmination of a life-long study of every aspect of the potato. Dr Salaman is concerned first with the history of the potato as a member of the botanical genus Solanum, its adaptation by man as a... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $38.95 Short Discount Markdown - Trade Paper
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Alaska's Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North by Eleanor Viereck Publisher Comments This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Colorado Flora: Western Slope, Fourth Edition by William Weber Publisher Comments Colorado Flora describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals in the recognition of... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Seeds of Change : Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (05 Edition) by Henry Hobhouse Publisher Comments In the manner of Barbara Tuchman and Paul Johnson, a superior, popular account of how five plants--quinine, sugar, tea, cotton and the potato--have determined the course of history. Illustrated.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Vegetation Description and Analysis: A Practical Approach. Martin Kent and Paddy Coker by Martin Kent Publisher Comments Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach, second edition is a fully revised and up-dated edition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advances in the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approach to the... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blueberries (Crop Production Science in Horticulture) by Jorge B. Retamales Publisher Comments Blueberry cultivation has increased dramatically as production has shifted into new regions. Blueberries are now widely available as food and also processed to be used in medicine and pharmaceuticals for their antioxidant properties. This practical book... (read more) Your price: $85.00 New - Trade Paper
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Flowering Plant Families of the World by V. H. Heywood Publisher Comments Featuring more than one thousand full-color illustrations and distribution maps, a thorough reference on flowering plants presents up-to-date information on more than five hundred flowering plant families, including descriptions of each plant's... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover
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