Plants, man and life.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Botany, Economic; Botany
Description: A distinguished botanist examines the long history of human and plant interactions in this innovative ecological survey. His reader-friendly narrative recounts the tangled and continuing history of weeds and cultivated plants around the world, from garden-variety flowers and vegetables to sources for poisons and drugs. 16 & black-and-white illustrations.