Title: Botany for gardeners : an introduction and guide /
Authors: Capon, Brian
Publisher: Timber Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Botany; Gardening.
Abstract: Presents an introduction to the science of botany written specifically for gardeners and horticulturists, focusing on flowering plants or angiosperms, the largest group in the plant kingdom, and gymnosperms, plants that produce seeds in the open spaces of cones.
Contents: Growth. Cells and seeds, basics and beginnings -- Roots and shoots. How plants mature -- Organization. Inside stems -- Inside roots and leaves -- Adaptation. Adaptations for protection -- Adaptations to fulfill basic needs -- Functions. Control of growth and development -- The uptake and use of water, minerals, and light -- Reproduction. From flowers to fruit -- Strategies of inheritance.