IT is a difficult task, nowadays, to write a text-book of botany, because the subject has become so large as to render it impossible to treat even the more important sections of it within reasonable ...

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 ...

THE scope of this book is somewhat ambitious, for although it is limited to the requirements of intermediate examinations, it takes up in considerable detail the four main branches of botany.

"The world's most fascinating flora"--Cover. "David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world ...