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Author Kassinger, Ruth, 1954- author.

Title A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants / Ruth Kassinger.

Publication Info. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  580.92 KASSINGER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KASSINGER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.45 KAS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  580.92 KASSINGER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  580.92 K15    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG KASSINGER, RUTH    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  580.92 KASSINGER    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  580.92 KAS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  580.92 KASSINGER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  580.92 KASSINGER    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [368]-379) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, the author of Paradise Under Glass gives us a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note ENFDFIC
Subject Kassinger, Ruth, 1954- -- Anecdotes.
Women gardeners -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Gardening.
Botanists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Botany -- Humor.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
NATURE / Plants / General.
ISBN 9780062048998 (hardback)
0062048996 (hardback)
9780062049018 (trade paperback)
0062049011 (trade paperback)
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