Are you one of those green fingered people who spends their time knee deep in cow dung or horse manure spreading the fragrance around your garden for better results for your plants and evergreens?

THE want of special works introductory to the study of the botany of the principal tropical and southern countries of the globe has long been felt. The medical man, the student, and the amateur ...

WE do not think that botany can be taught with advantage to children from books. No method of teaching seems so well adapted to the wants of junior students as that of demonstration. A flower pulled ...

When I was a kid, the plant world was a narrow and unlovely terrain enclosing only weeding (yuck) or soppy love poems (double yuck). But if "The Big, Bad Book of Botany" had come my way, I would have ...

As physical monuments go, the 3-foot stack of botany books hardly looks imposing. But as a legacy of plant-science scholarship and education, the UC Davis texts tower above the rest. The set of ...

Joey Santore came across the idea for his book “Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance” when he noticed plants growing out of sidewalk cracks in big cities. “They ...