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The Practical Garden Book (1913) The Holy Earth (1915) Wind and Weather (Poetry) (1916) Universal Service (1918) What is Democracy? (1918) Beginners' Botany (1921) The Apple-Tree (1922) The Seven Stars (1923) The Harvest: Of the Year to the Tiller of the Soil (1927) The Garden Lover (1928) The Horticulturist's Rule-Book; Farm and Garden Rule-Book
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
A textbook of general botany is a botany book first published in 1924 by Gilbert M. Smith (1885 – 1959), James B. Overton , Edward M. Gilbert, Rollin H. Denniston, George S. Bryan and Charles E. Allen. The textbook gives a broad introduction to the various elements and concepts of general botany.
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Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis, unfinished work by Robert Morison, first volume published in 1680, second volume completed by Jacob Bobart the Younger and published in 1699; Historia Plantarum (Ray), a book by John Ray, published in 1686; Historia Plantarum Rariorum (A History of Rare Plants), a book by John Martyn, published in 1728 ...
These first plant books, known as herbals showed that botany was still a part of medicine, as it had been for most of ancient history. [36] Authors of herbals were often curators of university gardens, [39] and most herbals were derivative compilations of classic texts, especially De Materia Medica.
Note that this system was published well before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature.It indicates a family by "ordo"; an order is indicated by "cohors" (in the first two volumes) or "series" (in the third volume); in the first two volumes “series” refers to a rank above that of order.