Anomatheca laxa:
Anomatheca laxa is a hardy little corm for zone 8 gardens and upwards. A delightful little mid winter into late spring and early summer flowering corm. Debate on the attribution of the name still has Botanists talking. The name either comes from ... [... more]
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Clutius Botanical Watercolors
 From Amazon.com: During the Renaissance, the boundary between art and science was not as clearly drawn as it is in the information age. One of the key functions of science in da Vinci's day was to accurately and elegantly depict the denizens of the [... more]
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The Anatomy of a Dish
From Amazon.com: Diane Forley, chef and proprietor of New York City's Verbena restaurant, has been praised for dishes that are delicious yet "disarmingly simple." This is one of the true tightrope acts in professional cooking. The Anatomy of a [... more]
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Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ...
Richard Drayton's Thrilling Read: Well, let's hope this is the first of many magisterial tomes from the pen of one of the brightest new stars of academe. Richard Drayton, a man who combines the wit of Mark Twain with the intellectual force of Aristotle, [... more]
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Forest plants of Central Ontario
Review of Forest Plants of Central Ontario: I used this plant guide in Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario) and found it useful for identifying major plant species of the area. This guide is interesting because it includes both a photograph and a line [... more]
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Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California
Meet Your Friends and Enemies of the Plant Kingdom: James Wiltens has carefully chosen 60 or so of plants found in Northern California that can easily be identified by beginning naturalists and botanists as edible or poisonous plants. Each plant covered [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Jamu
Outstanding journey and beautifully done!: Susan-Jane Beers through her personal experience provides a wealth of material complete with references and recipes that opens a door to this all-encompassing holistic system. This is not a novel - yet it drew [... more]
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A Rum Affair: A True Story Of Botanical Fraud
From Amazon.com: Take a garrulous old university professor with a knack for making extraordinary (and highly suspicious) botanical discoveries, a scientific community becoming increasingly skeptical of his claims, and an amateur botanist keen to find out [... more]
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Plant Discoveries: A Botanist's Voyage Through Plant ...
Author: Sandra Knapp Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635 EAN: 9781552978108 ISBN: 1552978109 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2003-09-06 [... more]
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Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:: The Construction of ...
Author: Kärin Nickelsen Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 580.222 EAN: 9781402048197 Edition: 1 ISBN: 140204819X Number Of Pages: 295 Publication Date: 2006-11-14 [... more]
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The Genus Arisaema: A Monograph for Botanists and Nature ...
Author: Guy Gusman Author: Liliane Gusman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 580 EAN: 9780881928396 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0881928399 Number Of Pages: 474 Publication Date: 2006-06-19 [... more]
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Ancient Roman Gardens
Home » Plants & Animals » Garden Design » Ancient Roman Gardens My article for September was a review of Annamaria Ciarallo's book The Gardens of Pompeii. Ciarallo approached the subject from a botanist's point of view and barely [... more]
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