Botany, Plants

ISBN: 9781905119554
Published by : Windgather Press
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168508
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Quartärforschung
Volume: 18/1-2
The Botanical Institute of Innsbruck University has an extensive collelction of plant seeds. Based on this collection of morphology and ultra-structure of numerous seeds from different plant families were investigated using SEM. So far more tha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781934536155
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789638046932
Published by : Archaeolingua
Thanks to extensive archaeobotanical investigations, it can be now considered as a fact that the Carpathian Basin is one of the longest inhabited regions of Europe. Plant cultivation has a history of eight thousand years, the cultivation of vegeta... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805342520
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
English summary: Paradise is a garden. The synonymous use of both terms has its roots in antiquity. The Greek name "paradeisoi" was used for the enclosed parks of the Persian kings and is still found today in the designation of the "gard... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905119318
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, while others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846742002
Published by : Countryside Books
The honeybee not only produces the rich, golden sweetener that we love so much, but it is one of the key pollinators of flowering plants and fruit trees upon which man depends.



Today, bees are under threat - largely through huma... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905119790
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, while others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922590
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Groningen Archaeological Studies
Volume: 9
This atlas, which - like the other atlases in the series - is published as a book plus a website, presents the plant parts that have an economic value and are offered for sale at markets and in shops. They include plants that are used as food, spi... .... Learn More