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A garden of marvels: how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
A garden of marvels: how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
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Kassinger, Ruth, 1954-
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English
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Hughes Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
580.92 Kassinger
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Pt. I. Inside a plant
Cocktail, anyone?
The birth and long life of the vegetable lamb
Through a glass, however darkly
The persecuted professor
Inside a plant
Pt. II. Roots
Restless roots
The enormous gourd
The way of all water
How to kill a hickory
Our fine fungal friends
Arsenic and young fronds
The once and future wheat
Off to the races
Pt. III. Leaves
New beginnings
A momentous mint
Leaves eat air
The vegetable slug
Once in a blue-green moon
The tenacity of trees
Amazing grass
Pt. IV. Flowers
Sex in the garden
Who needs Romeo?
Black petunias
The abominable mystery
Cheap sex
Scent and sex
Pt. V. Onward, upward, and afterward
Trouble in paradise
Onward and upward
Afterward.
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Botanists
Botany
Women gardeners
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Kassinger, Ruth
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9780062049018
9780062048998
9780062049032
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