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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: $8.98 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kingdom Fungi: the Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens (10 Edition) by Steven L. Stephenson Publisher Comments The ubiquitous fungi are little known and vastly underappreciated. Yet, without them we wouldn't have bread, alcohol, cheese, tofu, or the unique flavors of mushrooms, morels, and truffles. We can't survive without fungi. The Kingdom Fungi provides a... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Oranges by John Mcphee Publisher Comments A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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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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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: $12.95 Used - 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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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: $8.95 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) List Price $63.75 Your price: $60.00 New - Trade Paper
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Botany for Gardeners: an Introduction and 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants by Sarah Simblet Synopsis Following the success of Anatomy for the Artist and Sketch Book for the Artist, this latest title from the acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet investigates the extraordinary structure and variety of every type of plant-from mosses and lichens to flowers and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Botany for Gardeners ((Rev)05 - Old Edition) 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: $11.00 Used - 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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Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Conifers by Christophe (edt) Plomion Publisher Comments This book presents the implications of the genomic revolution for conifers, which go all the way from a better understanding of the evolution of these organisms to new knowledge about the molecular basis of quantitative trait variation, both playing... (read more) Your price: $190.50 New - Hardcover
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Progress in Botany #73: Progress in Botany Vol. 73 by Ulrich (edt) Luttge Publisher Comments With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative... (read more) List Price $200.95 Your price: $189.00 New - Hardcover
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How to Identify Plants by H D Harrington Publisher Comments First issued in 1957 by Swallow Press, this classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington who was Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at Colorado State University, gives step-... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (68 Edition) by Albert E. Radford Publisher Comments This illustrated manual describes and discusses the unusually rich and varied flora of the Carolinas, from the semi-tropical coast of South Carolina to the northern forests of the high North Carolina mountains. The manual treats in detail and in a... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $53.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Dictionary of Botanical Terms (Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences) by John Stevens Henslow Publisher Comments John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) was a botanist and geologist. As teacher, mentor and friend to Charles Darwin, it was his introduction that secured for Darwin the post of naturalist on the voyage of the Beagle. While Professor of Botany, Henslow... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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