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Botany for young people and common schools, how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings
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Botany for young people and common schools, how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings

Dateapproximately 1870s
Names
Alternate Title
  • How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany
Format
Notes
Pages 104¹-104⁴ inserted between 104-105
Originally published in 1858
Includes index
The library also has microfiche copy classed in: FILM F CIHM 24382 
 Asa Gray, M.D., Fisher professor of natural history in Harvard University
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
Medium
DimensionsCover size: 20 cm x 16 cm (7 7/8 in. x 6 5/16 in.)
Extent
  • 233 pages : illustrations
Language
CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131099669210D
Dewey Number581.07 G67
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=2736989
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