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020			_a9781107239111 (ebook)
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050		4	_aSB107 _b.B68 1889
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100	1		_aBoulger, George Simonds, _d1853-1922, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Uses of Plants : _bA Manual of Economic Botany with Special Reference to Vegetable Products Introduced during the Last Fifty Years / _cGeorge Simonds Boulger.
264		1	_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1889.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aAn eminent botanist and natural historian, George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922) wrote a number of books on plant life in the British Isles. He published this concise work in 1889. It opens with a brief survey of the progress made in economic botany over the years, particularly in the period 1837-87. Boulger then notes the commercial application of plants across many fields, notably food production, medicine, and the building trade. Common and botanical names are given, followed by succinct descriptions of each plant. Including both a general and synoptical index, this accessible resource can be read with profit alongside John Jackson's Commercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century (1890) and Boulger's Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the Timbers of Commerce (1902), both of which are reissued in this series.
650		0	_aBotany, Economic.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108068703
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pBotany and horticulture.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107239111
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