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.
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Women gardeners -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Gardening.
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Botanists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Botany -- Humor.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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NATURE / Plants / General.
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ISBN |
9780062048998 (hardback) |
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0062048996 (hardback) |
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9780062049018 (trade paperback) |
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0062049011 (trade paperback) |
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