Going along with Ewell Gibbon’s love of wild foods that “remind me of hickory nuts,” Connie and Arnold Krochmal have put a lot of interest and experience into this excellent volume on how to use wild plants for food.
Going along with Ewell Gibbon’s love of wild foods that “remind me of hickory nuts,” Connie and Arnold Krochmal have put a lot of interest and experience into this excellent volume on how to use wild plants for food.
This is the second edition of Palmer’s classical Fieldbook of Natural History, brought up to date by H. Seymour Fowler, one of Palmer’s early students.
Received by the Editor, from the Ohio Biological Survey, OSU, Columbus, OH 43210, were the following publications
This very fine text is about exactly that—Plant Science. The authors have assembled a prodigious amount of material concerning the crop foods of the world, emphasizing their origins, production, marketing, and all the problems along the way.
One of the best plant kingdom books this reviewer has seen, is this beautifully illustrated work. Burns has used copious charts, drawings, and photographs, to illustrate his contention that “The plant world is everywhere around us, yet too little known by too many.”
This book should be a major work among plant taxonomists, and others, interested in evolutionary relationships in the larger plant taxa. Stebbins is a recognized authority in the area of plant genetics and evolution, and has put together a remarkable synthesis from many sources.
A well invested ten dollars for the beginning home gardener, would be this volume by the Garden Editor of the New York Times. A graduate in Horticulture from Michigan State University, Ms. Faust is well qualified by training and experience to write such a book.
This volume supersedes the former Woody Plant Seed Manual, Miscellaneous Publication #654 (1948) of the U.S.D.A.
A large tome, Botany is somewhat reminiscent of Fuller and Tippo brought up to date.
This work is the printed form of the General Biology course given at MIT in 1973 and 1974. As one reads the lectures, it becomes quite obvious that the lecturer is indeed worthy of the Nobel Prize, one of his awards.