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100 1 _aCandolle, Alphonse de,
_d1806-1893
245 1 0 _aOrigin of Cultivated Plants :
_bThe International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2014-06-08
508 _aProduced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Origin of Cultivated Plants" by Alphonse de Candolle is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This extensive work explores the origins of cultivated plants, focusing on their historical cultivation, geographical spread, and the factors that contributed to their domestication. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between plants and early civilizations, engaging readers interested in botany, agriculture, and history. At the start of the book, the author introduces the subject by emphasizing the importance of understanding the origins of cultivated plants for various audiences, including agriculturists, botanists, and historians. He reflects on the complexities involved in determining the native habitats of different species and critiques historical inaccuracies regarding the origins that have persisted through time. He outlines the various methods he employs to discover and prove the origins of cultivated plants, including botanical observations, archaeological evidence, and historical records. Additionally, he discusses the need to rely on a combination of these methods to arrive at solid conclusions concerning the history and diffusion of various cultivated species. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPlants, Cultivated
653 _aBotany, Economic
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45917
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