This book has loads of information on the history and description of hundreds (over 650) vegetables and their varieties. The photographs are superb. The book does not concentrate on cultivation however and does not include cereals.
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This is a two-volume set. You can see in the color photos of the covers (above) that there is a "Volume I, Trees and Shrubs" and a "Volume II: Perennials and Annuals." Volume I weighs about five pounds; Volume II, a little more. I mention the weigh to impress upon the reader the impact that these books will have on your library. These are weighty volumes in more ways than one.
They are lavishly illustrated with several full-colors photos artfully arranged on each heavy, glossy page (over a thousand altogether in the two volumes) showing the flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds, catkins, etc. of the plants. The photos are identified by date of the year taken: the leaves 1/3 life size of Lindera megaphylla, for example, on May 5th, ... Read More:
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This is a two-volume set. You can see in the color photos of the covers (above) that there is a "Volume I, Trees and Shrubs" and a "Volume II: Perennials and Annuals." Volume I weighs about five pounds; Volume II, a little more. I mention the weigh to impress upon the reader the impact that these books will have on your library. These are weighty volumes in more ways than one.
They are lavishly illustrated with several full-colors photos artfully arranged on each heavy, glossy page (over a thousand altogether in the two volumes) showing the flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds, catkins, etc. of the plants. The photos are identified by date of the year taken: the leaves 1/3 life size of Lindera megaphylla, for example, on May 5th, ... Read More:
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This is a two-volume set. You can see in the color photos of the covers (above) that there is a "Volume I, Trees and Shrubs" and a "Volume II: Perennials and Annuals." Volume I weighs about five pounds; Volume II, a little more. I mention the weigh to impress upon the reader the impact that these books will have on your library. These are weighty volumes in more ways than one.
They are lavishly illustrated with several full-colors photos artfully arranged on each heavy, glossy page (over a thousand altogether in the two volumes) showing the flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds, catkins, etc. of the plants. The photos are identified by date of the year taken: the leaves 1/3 life size of Lindera megaphylla, for example, on May 5th, ... Read More:
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This is a two-volume set. You can see in the color photos of the covers (above) that there is a "Volume I, Trees and Shrubs" and a "Volume II: Perennials and Annuals." Volume I weighs about five pounds; Volume II, a little more. I mention the weigh to impress upon the reader the impact that these books will have on your library. These are weighty volumes in more ways than one.
They are lavishly illustrated with several full-colors photos artfully arranged on each heavy, glossy page (over a thousand altogether in the two volumes) showing the flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds, catkins, etc. of the plants. The photos are identified by date of the year taken: the leaves 1/3 life size of Lindera megaphylla, for example, on May 5th, ... Read More:
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This is a two-volume set. You can see in the color photos of the covers (above) that there is a "Volume I, Trees and Shrubs" and a "Volume II: Perennials and Annuals." Volume I weighs about five pounds; Volume II, a little more. I mention the weigh to impress upon the reader the impact that these books will have on your library. These are weighty volumes in more ways than one.
They are lavishly illustrated with several full-colors photos artfully arranged on each heavy, glossy page (over a thousand altogether in the two volumes) showing the flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds, catkins, etc. of the plants. The photos are identified by date of the year taken: the leaves 1/3 life size of Lindera megaphylla, for example, on May 5th, ... Read More:
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