epub |eng | | Author:Richard Mabey

Chapter 9 Grelda The witch in the border THERE ARE BOUNDARIES everywhere between nature and culture. One lies about fifty yards from where I’m writing. The front of our garden ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Boutenko, Sergei [Boutenko, Sergei]

Grape—Vitis spp. Family Name: Vitaceae/Grape Family A. Green grapes on a vine. Photo © iStockphoto B. Black grapes. Photo: ayjackson, Flickr C. Grape leaves. D. Leaves close-up. Table 9. Nutrient ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-05-27 | Author:Michael Pollan [Pollan, Michael]

• • • To a marijuana grower, Amsterdam in the 1990s was something like what Paris in the 1920s was to a writer: a place where alienated expatriates could go ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Redfern, Margaret [Redfern, Margaret]

GALL MIDGE GALLS Communities in cecidomyiid galls vary in complexity and, as in other galls, consist of parasitoids, predators, inquilines and caterpillar herbivores, with roles that often overlap and merge. ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Coitir, Niall Mac [Coitir, Niall Mac]

Maidenhair Spleenwort – Lus na Seilge – Asplenium trichomanes24 ALTERNATIVE NAMES: (E) White Maidenhair. (I) Lus an Chorráin In Ireland maidenhair spleenwort was used to cure coughs in County Derry, ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:David Suzuki & Wayne Grady [Suzuki, David & Grady, Wayne]

A WORLD OF FERNS The fan of slender sword ferns (Polystichum scopulinum) is still growing at the base of our tree, although the salamander has moved on. There is something ...

epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Chamovitz

Knowing Up from Down In 1758—more than a century before Darwin’s landmark book The Power of Movement in Plants—Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, a French naval inspector and ardent botanist, observed ...

epub |eng | 2001-05-27 | Author:Pollan, Michael [Pollan, Michael]

• • • To a marijuana grower, Amsterdam in the 1990s was something like what Paris in the 1920s was to a writer: a place where alienated expatriates could go ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hobbs

LENTINULA EDODES (BERK.) PEGLER (lent=pliable, inus=resembling; edodes=edible) SHIITAKE Synonyms Tricholomopsis edodes Sing., Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Pegler. The species name, edodes, means “edible”. Other Common Names The common Japanese name for ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Amy Stewart [Stewart, Amy]

COMMON GIN INGREDIENTS Angelica root Bay leaf Cardamom Citrus peel Coriander Cubeb Fennel Ginger Grains of paradise Juniper berry Lavender Orris root THE CLASSIC MARTINI The old joke that a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-05-27 | Author:Michael Pollan

CHAPTER 4 Desire: Control Plant: The Potato (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM) To my eye, there are few sights in nature quite as stirring as fresh rows of vegetable seedlings rising like a ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Noel Kingsbury

In parts of Cornwall, anyone walking one of the many footpaths which crisscross the landscape is liable to suddenly come across a field of daffodils 1. Now no longer used ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Li Zhi-Sui [Zhisui, Li]

40 Lillian met me at the airport, together with Shi Shuhan and Ji Suhua. Lillian and I visited my mother briefly before I checked into the hospital. As the economic ...