A practical course in botany (Registro nro. 119150)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | QK |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Andrews, Eliza Frances, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1840-1931 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A practical course in botany |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-04-13 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Branka P, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A practical course in botany" by Eliza Frances Andrews is a scientific textbook written in the early 20th century. It presents a hands-on introduction to plant biology with strong emphasis on seeds, germination, plant structures, physiology, ecology, and their practical ties to agriculture, economics, and sanitation. Aimed at teachers and students, it favors simple, accessible experiments and field work over elaborate apparatus, and it advocates conserving native wildflowers while using cultivated specimens for study.<br/><br/>The opening of this textbook sets a practical, experiment-driven tone: the preface explains the goal of meeting entrance requirements while keeping the science useful, accurate, and low-jargon; it stresses using common materials, grouping experiments to support the text, and protecting wild flora. Chapter I centers on seeds—their economic importance, why plants store food for seedlings, and the main food classes (sugars, starches, oils, proteins)—then introduces cells, digestion by diastase, and straightforward tests for food substances. It examines seed water relations and respiration through simple trials, and guides dissections of corn, beans, castor bean, squash, and pine to compare cotyledons, endosperm, and embryo structure. The section closes with seed dispersal by wind, water, animals, explosive pods, and self-planting devices, linking form to function with quick demonstrations and field prompts. At the start of Chapter II, students detect oxidation and carbon dioxide release during germination, test conditions for sprouting (moisture, air, depth, temperature, heat tolerance, seed age and quality), and begin observing early seedling development in monocots such as corn. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: American Book Company, 1911 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Plants |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Botany -- Textbooks |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lloyd, Francis Ernest, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1868-1947 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/practicalcoursei00andr/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/practicalcoursei00andr/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78430">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78430</a> |
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