Certain plants produce some flowers with only male parts (staminate flowers) and some flowers with only female parts (pistillate flowers). Cucumbers and squash, pictured here, are a good example. The ...
DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...
Plants are amazing creatures. They don't have the sort of nervous system we do and they are mostly incapable of movement. They none-the-less communicate with one another and with the other creatures ...
Al Will is a botany professor but on this day he looks more like Mr. Food, the chef on Channel 10. He is standing before his Broward Community College class wearing a white coat and an apron, and ...
IN his far-reaching essay on “Education,” Mr. Herbert Spencer remarks: “In education the process of self-development should be encouraged to the uttermost. Children should be led to make their own ...
The CSIRO is working with students in remote communities to encourage the practice of Indigenous Sciences in the school curriculum. Walking around in sand country, munching on arnguli (plum bush) and ...
Fresh figs and ‘maters right from the garden, among the most blissful culinary delights ever, are Southern gardeners’ heaven on earth. But it has been years since I enjoyed tangy home-grown salsa and ...
A wet early spring did not deter a number of Oregon Connections Academy students, who took advantage of The Oregon Garden setting for a refreshing field-trip lesson on Thursday, April 18. ORCA ...