Certain plants produce some flowers with only male parts (staminate flowers) and some flowers with only female parts (pistillate flowers). Cucumbers and squash, pictured here, are a good example. The ...
DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...
IN his far-reaching essay on “Education,” Mr. Herbert Spencer remarks: “In education the process of self-development should be encouraged to the uttermost. Children should be led to make their own ...
Sometimes the teacher in me takes over and I must communicate a little lesser-known information about plants. Today's lesson is about bamboo. We don't have any bamboos growing outdoors in Michigan, ...
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How Taylor Swift is helping botany gain celebrity status
Feedback is delighted to learn that researchers have discovered what Taylor Swift is accidentally doing to rescue the science ...
A wet early spring did not deter a number of Oregon Connections Academy students, who took advantage of The Oregon Garden setting for a refreshing field-trip lesson on Thursday, April 18. ORCA ...
Bringing a poinsettia home this holiday season? These horticultural facts may make you look at this beloved holiday decoration a little differently. The foil-covered, potted poinsettia that we know ...
NEITHER better nor worse than the innumerable other little books of the same kind. The morphological part consists of the usual enumeration of descriptive terms, with coarsely-executed diagrams. The ...
Plants are amazing creatures. They don't have the sort of nervous system we do and they are mostly incapable of movement. They none-the-less communicate with one another and with the other creatures ...
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