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Asa Gray

 
9781330280287: The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Unlock the basics of plants with a clear, beginner-friendly guide that makes botany easy to grasp. This edition presents the essentials of plant structure and life, using plain language and practical explanations. It pairs clear explanations with helpful illustrations and a greatly expanded glossary to aid understanding.

Inside you’ll find a steady, non-technical path through how plants are built, how they grow, and how they live. The book emphasizes concepts over memorization and shows how terms connect to real plants in the world around you. It’s designed to prepare readers for more advanced study, while staying accessible for beginners.




  • Foundations of botany: structures, growth, and function explained in plain language

  • Extensive illustrations that clarify forms and processes

  • An enlarged glossary that includes common terms and many older or unusual words

  • A structured layout that supports quick, scan-friendly learning



Ideal for students, teachers, and curious readers starting a journey into plant science.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume takes the place of the authors Lessons in Botany AND Vegetable Physiology, published over a quarter of a century ago. It is coustructed on the same lines, and is a kind of new and much revised edition of that successful work. While in some respects more extended, it is also more concise and terse than its predecessor. This should the better fit it for its purpose now that competent teachers are common. They may in many cases develop paragraphs into lectures, and fully illustrate points which are barely, but it is hoped clearly, stated. I ndeed, even for those without a teacher, it may be that a condensed is better than a diffuse exposition. The book is adapted to the higher schools, How Plants Grow and Behave being theB otany for Young People and Common Schools. It is intended to ground beginners inS tructural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical instruction should always begin ;also to be a companion and interpreter to theM anuals andF loras by which the student threads his flowery way to a clear knowledge of the surrounding vegetable creation. Such a book, like a grammar, must needs abound in technical words, which thus arrayed may seem formidable; nevertheless, if rightly apprehended, this treatise should teach that the study of botany is not the learning of names and terms, but the acquisition of knowledge and ideas. No effort should be made to commit technical terras to memory. A ny term used in describing a plant or explaining its structure can be looked up when it is wanted, and that should suffice.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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