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Trees: Flowers and Inflorescences
If you're passionate about botany, 'Trees, Flowers, and Inflorescences' is the book for you! Written by renowned botanists Harry Marshall Ward and Percy Groom, this comprehensive volume covers everything you need to know about the fascinating world of plants. Filled with gorgeous illustrations and insightful information, this book will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the diverse and beautiful world of flora.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
420 pages, Hardcover
First published July 26, 2015
About the author
H. Marshall Ward
30 booksHarry Marshall Ward (1854–1906), FRS, FLS, was a British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist.
From early 1880 until 1882, Ward was employed by the British government in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) to study the coffee rust disease affecting the island's coffee plantations. His detailed and methodical work established his reputation as a plant pathologist and physiologist and although he was unable to stop the rust in the coffee plantations of Ceylon he laid the foundations for solving the problem in the future.
Ward recommended avoiding monoculture, and the cultivation of multiple strains of coffee. Ward demonstrated that disease spores could be spread on the wind and recommended growing trees between plantations to reduce this. However plantation owners in Ceylon had already destroyed many indigenous species on their plantations and planted a single type of coffee on almost every available acre.
The standard author abbreviation H.M. Ward is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
From early 1880 until 1882, Ward was employed by the British government in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) to study the coffee rust disease affecting the island's coffee plantations. His detailed and methodical work established his reputation as a plant pathologist and physiologist and although he was unable to stop the rust in the coffee plantations of Ceylon he laid the foundations for solving the problem in the future.
Ward recommended avoiding monoculture, and the cultivation of multiple strains of coffee. Ward demonstrated that disease spores could be spread on the wind and recommended growing trees between plantations to reduce this. However plantation owners in Ceylon had already destroyed many indigenous species on their plantations and planted a single type of coffee on almost every available acre.
The standard author abbreviation H.M. Ward is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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