Screen LibraryScience and the garden：the scientific basis of horticultural practice
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
| Published: |
Blackwell Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 350 p.: col. ill., plans ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781405160636 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405160632 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | S6 |
| CLC: | S6 |
| Call Number: | S6/S416/2nd.ed. |
| Contents: |
"Published for the Royal Horticultural Society." Includes bibliographical references and index. Diversity in the plant world -- Know your plant : structure and function -- Reproduction : securing the future -- Naming plants -- Selecting and breeding plants -- Soils and roots -- Soil cultivation and fertility -- The plant's environment : light and water -- Raising plants from seed -- Propagating plants vegetatively -- Shape and size -- Colour, scent and sound in the garden -- Climate, weather and seasonal effects -- Gardening in the greenhouse -- The diversity of undesirables -- Controlling the undesirables -- Maturation, ripening and storage -- Conservation and sustainable gardening -- Gardens and the natural world -- Gardens for science. |