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The Famous Parks and Gardens of the World, Described and Illustrated.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2200409

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Deaccessioned Reynolds Library copy, usual marks, ink stamps on some of the engravings. Boards rubbed, endpapers and margins of a few pages lightly stained. 1880 Large Hardcover. 230 pp. Tall 8vo. Leather spine, gilt titles and rules, marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers. A popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens, public and private, ancient and modern, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening. Engraved illustrations throughout.
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The Nature Calendar: Wild Flowers

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1913

Seller ID: 2201036

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original box. Tears to box corners. 1913 Large Softcover. A mixture of scientific information on various flowers, beautiful verse, and tipped in chromolithographs.
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Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming: Spring 1989, Issue 23, Vol. 7, No. 2

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Moscow, ID, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989

Seller ID: 2296542

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor wear. 1989 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. FEATURES: Morel Hell; Where are the Tame Morels?; Near Yosemite, One More Time?; After the Yellowstone Fires; Are They Raking Our Truffles to Death?; Train Your Own Tuber Hound; Mushrooming Around North America; Save Those Mushrooms (by Drying); Poisoning in Oregon; No More Melzer's?; Rot-Nots Strikes Again; The Truth about Midwest Mushrooms; A Strange Encounter.
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Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming: Fall 1989, Issue 25, Vol. 7, No. 4

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Moscow, ID, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989

Seller ID: 2296543

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Light stain, two creases to rear wrapper. 1989 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. FEATURES: The Latest Morel News: Another Patent, Some High Finance, and More Kits; What if Morels Were Easy?; Truffle Essence is Criticized; The Picture Quiz (Especially for Lumpers); Roundup of 1989 Mushrooming--the Survey of North America; Some Gilled Woorotters Have Pale Spores; Chuch Barrows Dies; Spreading the Word at Puyallup.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: UK, The National Trust: 1989

Seller ID: 2300663

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Three color postcards laid in. A very nice copy. 1989 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. A brief history and visitors' guidebook to the famed site. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardener...
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Memorials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale Babington [Memoirs]

By: Babington, Charles Cardale

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes: 1897

Seller ID: 2305197

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine title Memoirs; title page Memorials. Bookplate and ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1897 Hard Cover. xciv, 475 pp. Deckled edges. Pocket in rear with geneaological fold-out of the family of Babington. Charles Cardale Babington (23 November 1808 22 July 1895) was an English botanist and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. Babington was the son of Joseph Babington and Cathrine ne Whitter, and a nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. He was educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in 1830 a...
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Landscape Plants for the Southeast

By: Batson, Wade T.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2266618

ISBN: 0872494330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 1984 Hard Cover. xxi, 406 pp. Each species is illustrated by at least one drawing, usually of the flower and leaf. This volume is invaluable for homeowners selecting plants for the yard, for plant enthusiasts trying to identify the plants they encounter, and for nurserymen and professional landscapes.
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Fifty Blooming Years, 1913-1963

By: Battles, Marjorie Gibbon; Dickey, Catherine Colt

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., The Garden Club of America: 1963

Seller ID: 2300657

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. A nice copy. 1963 Large Hardcover. 98 pp. A history of the Garden Club of American spanning over fifty years.
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An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada (Volume I)

By: Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Brown, Hon. Addison

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1970

Seller ID: 2264674

ISBN: 0486226425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1970 reissue of 1913 original. Revised and enlarged edition. Ink name on page ridges, wrappers faintly toned, top page ridge faintly foxed. xxix, 680 pp. Volume I only. This monumental classic of botany remains unsurpassed as the most comprehensive and reliable work on the flora of the Northeastern United States and reliable parts of Canada. An encyclopedic collection of information, it illustrates and describes by botanists and growing wild from Virginia to the Northern reaches of Labrador, and as far West as Kansas and Manitoba. This second edition, materially revised and enlarged, covers 46...
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A Bouquet of Garden Writing, Selected from Five Grand Masters

By: Buchan, Ursula; Jekyll, Gertrude; Sackville-West, Vita; Robinson, William; Bowles, E. A.; Farrer, Reginald

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston, David R. Godin: 1987

Seller ID: 2300651

ISBN: 0879236582

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, top edge of rear jacket panel bumped. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1987 Large Hardcover. 191 pp. Presents an anthology of works by such noted garden writers as Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, E.A. Bowles, and Reginald Farrer.
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Common Flowering Plants of the Northeast

By: Cox, Donald D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Albany, State University of New York: 1985

Seller ID: 2292523

ISBN: 087395890X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear. 1985 Trade Paperback. From woodlands to wetlands and from roadsides to sandy beaches, Common Flowering Plants of the Northeast is a ready reference tool for identifying plants in their native habitat. It is a habitat-oriented guide to common flowering plants in the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. Donald D. Cox skillfully integrates ecological and taxonomic information, impressing upon the user the often intimate relationship between the organism and its habitat. The information is presented in botanically accurate yet nontechnical language, making it useful to s...
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Gardens: Private and Personal (A Garden Club of America Book)

By: D'Oench, Nancy; Martin, Bonny

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams: 2008

Seller ID: 2291139

ISBN: 0810972808

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription, For Chris, Enjoy these beautiful gardens and your own! Nancy D'Oench. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2008 Large Hardcover. 255 pp. More than 90 exquisite gardens were photographed all around the United States especially for this book by Mick Hales, one of the worlds leading garden photographers. Organized according to parts of the garden?entryways, herbaceous borders, water features, hedges, etc.?the pictures are accompanied by insightful commentaries and extended captions. Quotations from the owners?dedicated garden...
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Plants and Their Children

By: Dana, Mrs. William Starr [Parsons, Frances Theodora]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Book Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2308045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled. 1896 Hard Cover. 272 pp. Black-and-white drawings of numerous plants by Alice Josephine Smith. A children's book on plants. CONTENTS: Fruits and Seeds; Young Plants; Roots and Stems; Buds; Leaves; Flowers; Learning to See.
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An Introduction to Pollen Analysis (A New Series of Plant Science Books Volume XII [12])

By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Waltham, Mass., Chronica Botanica Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2266467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject of research in just a few countires and made it an internationally recognized field, and revolutionized Quaternary vegetation and climate change research. Illustrations, diagrams, and charts throughout. Oddly, the verso of the final leaf bears an illustration of a tree playing a flute.
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The Leguminous Plants of Wisconsin: The Taxonomy, Ecology and Distribution of the Leguminosae Growing in the State Without Cultivation

By: Fassett, Norman C.; Mose, Catherine

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2291382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1961 Hard Cover. xii, 157 pp. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4. Green boards, gilt on spine. Numerous photos, drawings, diagrams, maps. With drawings by Richard I. Evans. A Study of Epidermal Outgrowths by Catherine Mose. CONTENTS: Preface; The Distribution of the Leguminosae Native in Wisconsin; Artificial Key to the Leguminosae of Wisconsin Based on Vegetative Characters; Key Based on Flowers; Key Based on Fruits; Key Based on Seeds; Characteristics and Distributions of the Leguminosae of Wisconsin; Epidermal Outgrowths of the Leguminosae of Wisconsin; Glossary; In...
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An Illustrated Guide to Prunning

By: Gilman, Edward F.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Albany, New York, Delmar: 2002

Seller ID: 2295905

ISBN: 0766822710

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. Ink name on half-title page. 2002 Large Softcover. xvii, 330 pp. Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 2nd Edition details why trees need pruning and presents the protocol for how to do it. This thoroughly updated second edition helps the reader manage trees in a more sustainable manner and provides numerous illustrations and concepts to help prevent future problems in young and medium-aged trees. From one-year-old liners to mature trees in the landscape, the Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 2nd Edition, teaches which live branches to remove to formulate sustainable trunk and branch struc...
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Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive, (The Mosses and Liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant,) Arranged According to the Natural System; with an Introduction, Containing a Reduction of the Genera to the Linnaean Artificial Classes and Orders, Outlines of the Elements of Botany, a Glossary, Etc.

By: Gray, Asa

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston & Cambridge, James Munroe and Company: 1848

Seller ID: 2307838

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Sabin 28366). Professionally rebacked with original title panel laid down, and reinforcements to edges and corners. Very minimal pencil marks in text (brief, and only on a handful of pages) with associated notes on rear endpapers. 1848 Hard Cover. 701 pp., 20 plates follow text, as well as an advertisement for Gray's Botanist's Microscope, and Plant Analysis by E.A. Apgar. Black leather spine over green blind-stamped cloth boards, marbled page ridges. The classic botany guide by Harvard professor of botany, who was respected by Charles Darwin and other contemporary natural scien...
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A History of Horticulture in America to 1860, with an Addendum of Books Published from 1861-1920

By: Hedrick, U. P.; Woodburn, Elisabeth

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Timber Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2300654

ISBN: 0881921025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A few very minor tears to jacket edges, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. xv, 634 pp. With an Addendum of Books Published from 1861-1920. This interestingly told account of our gardening, gathered from his researches, is chronologically and geographically arranged. Fruit and vegetable growing, viticulture, and landscape development are all involved in this saga which begins with the European settlers' arrival here and ends with the year 1860.
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The Grapes of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1907, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Fifteen Annual Report, Vol. 3, Part II)

By: Hedrick, U.P.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M.; Wellington, R.; Dorsey, M.J.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company: 1908

Seller ID: 2295564

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Boards lightly rubbed. 1908 Large Hardcover. xv, [1], 564 pp. 12 1/8 x 9 3/4. An extensive survey of many varieties of grapes grown in New York, which as the preface points out is representative of varieties of grapes grown throughout the entire country. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of grapes.
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The Small Fruits of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year Ending June 30, 1925, Volume II [2]) (State of New York - Department of Farms and Markets Thirty-third Annual Report, Part II)

By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Berger, Alwin; Slate, G.L.; Einset, Olav

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2306940

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few tiny spots to bottom edge of front board, front and end matter faintly foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1925 Large Hardcover. xii, 614 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. An extensive survey of many varieties of fruit grown in New York, with stunning full color plates.
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The Pears of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1921, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Twenty-Ninth Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II)

By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Francis, E.H.; Tukey, H.B.; Thatcher, R.W.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company: 1921

Seller ID: 2295565

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy with a few minimal cosmetic flaws. 1921 Large Hardcover. xi, [1], 636 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of pears. An extensive survey of many varieties of pear grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is to make... a complete record of the development of the pear wherever cultivated up to the present time... [and to give] an account of the history and uses of the pear; to depict the botanical characters of cultivated pears; to describe pear growing in thi...
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The Peaches of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1916, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Twenty-Fourth Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II)

By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company: 1917

Seller ID: 2078086

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards rubbed (common with titles from this series), binding tight & square, no foxing. 1917 Large Hardcover. xiii, 541 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. An extensive survey of many varieties of peaches grown in New York, including according to the preface an account of the history and uses of the peach; a discussion of the botanical characters of the species of cultivated peaches; an account of the peach-regions and of peach-growing in New York with the most important statistics relating to this fruit; and, lastly and in greatest detail, the synonymy, bibli...
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The Plums of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1910, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Eighteenth Annual Report, Vol. 3, Part II)

By: Hedrick, U.P.; Wellington, R.; Taylor, O.M.; Alderman, W.H.; Dorsey, M.J.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2295373

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed and smudged, front hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Text and plates clean and unmarked. 1910 Large Hardcover. xii, 616 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of plums. An extensive survey of many varieties of plums grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is to make... a record of our present knowledge of cultivated plums... [It includes] a historical account and a botanical classification of plums... a discussion of the present status of plum-growing in America...
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Practical Floriculture; A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist

By: Henderson, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Company: 1917

Seller ID: 2306118

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

New and enlarged edition. Bottom board corners bumped, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1917 Hard Cover. 325, 12 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: How to Become a Florist; The Prices of Nursery and Greenhouse Products Abroad and at Home; The Profits of Floriculture; Aspect and Soil; The Preparation for New, and the Renovation of Old, Lawns; Laying out the Flower Garden; Designs for Ornamental Grounds and Flower Gardens; Planting of Flower Beds; Soils for Plotting; Temperature and Moisture; The Potting of Plants; Drainage in Pots; Expert Garden Workmen; Cold Frames--Winter Protection; The Const...
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The Garden Bluebook: A Manual of the Perennial Garden

By: Holland, Leicester Bodine

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2300629

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Two inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with some small chips. Stain along top edge of pages. 1927 Hard Cover. 234 pp. Color fold-out charts follow text. This is a complete book of reference containing all the practical, needed information about the two hundred hardy perennials. Its distinguishing feature is a color chart which shows at a glance the height, the time of blooming, the color of bloom, preference for sun or shade, wet or dry soil, fragrance, cutting qualities... In addition to this chart, there is a page given to each perennial, on w...
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Hooker's Finest Fruits: A Selection of Paintings of Fruits

By: Hooker, William; Stearn, William T.; Roach, Frederick A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2297793

ISBN: 0133945456

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Jacket spine lightly toned. Edges of boars lightly rubbed. 1989 Large Hardcover. 222 pp. Compiled from paintings commissioned by the Horticultural Society of London 1815-1820, and from engravings in Hooker's Pomona Londinensis (1816-18). The first printed appearance of Hooker's complete paintings. Collection of paintings of fruit showing the fruit, leaves, flowers, and half section of fruit for fruits popular in the 18th century.
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In Praise of Rochester Flowers and Foliage: A Guide to Garden Planning, Flower Conditioning and Floral Design

By: Hyde, Susan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Council of the Memorial Art Gallery: 1996

Seller ID: 2299988

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1996 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 63 pp. Designing, planting, growing, containing, combining, arranging. Part of Art in Bloom, 1996.
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In Praise of Rochester Flowers and Foliage: A Guide to Garden Planning, Flower Conditioning and Floral Design

By: Hyde, Susan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Council of the Memorial Art Gallery: 1996

Seller ID: 2300653

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1996 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 63 pp. Designing, planting, growing, containing, combining, arranging. Part of Art in Bloom, 1996.
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Who Loves a Garden

By: Jones, Louise Seymour

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., The Primavera Press: 1935

Seller ID: 2300628

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small chip to jacket spine head, front jacket flap on price-clipped, pencil note on rear jacket flap. Jacket and boards lightly toned. Garden party gift note on front free endpaper, ink note on front free endpaper verso. 1935 Hard Cover. 205 pp. A delightful account of the pleasures of gardens and gardening.
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Lectures on Plant Physiology (Authorized English Translation)

By: Jost, Ludwig; Gibson, R. J. Harvey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon Press: 1907

Seller ID: 2291711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. (First English translation of 1904 German original.) Spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, ink and pencil name on front free endpaper. 1907 Hard Cover. xiv, 564 pp. With 172 illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; Part I. Metabolism: Material Composition of the Plant - Absorption of Materials in General - Absorption of Materials in Detail; Fate of Substances Absorbed; Water; Mineral Constituents; Carbon and Nitrogen: Assimilation in Holophytic Plants and Fate of the Products of Assimilation - Acquisition of Carbon and Nitrogen by Hetero...
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