On the day leading up to my sister’s birth, I carried around a glossy paperback called Botany for Beginners. At the time I was ten years old and obsessed with plants. An orderly child, I loved the ...

At head of title: Gray's lessons in botany. Revised edition. "... Takes the place of the author's Lessons in botany and vegetable physiology ... and is a kind of new and much revised edition of that .

THIS is in no sense a cram-book. To take the trouble of learning it by heart, page for page, would not suffice for any botanical examination with which we are acquainted. This is a great advantage in ...