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Emily Flora Klickmann (26 January 1867 – 20 November 1958) was an English journalist, author and editor. She was the second editor of the Girl's Own Paper, but became best known for her Flower-Patch series of books of anecdotes, autobiography and nature description.
The Falcon's Feathers, the sixth book in the series, was written in 1998. In the book, Josh discovers a falcons’ nest, he checks on the young birds every day. But when he tries to show Dink and Ruth Rose, the nest is empty! When they found a baby falcon's wing trimmed, they know that someone is stealing the falcons from Green Lawn.
Sprengel's book introduced a functional view, which would today be called ecology, and provided evidence that pollination was an organised process in which insects acted as "living brushes" in a symbiotic relationship for the teleological purpose of fertilising the flowers. His discovery enabled him to understand the construction and ...
Robert Furber (1674–1756) was a British horticulturist and author, best known for writing the first seed catalogue produced in England. [1]Furber was a member of the "English Society of Gardners", a group formed in 1724 to protect the reputations of plant growers by mutually agreeing to names for newly discovered plants.
The prettiest flowers in the world include rare camellias, ... We Found the 40 Prettiest Flowers in the World. Jessica Dukes. June 5, 2023 at 5:13 PM ... The best books of 2024, according to ...
Red Cardinal Flower, Red Lobelia, Cardinal Lobelia, Slinkweed, Cardinal Flower, Scarlet Lobelia, Great Lobelia, or Indian Tobacco Lycopus americanus: Water Horehound Maianthemum racemosum: Treacleberry or Feathery False Lily of the Valley Micranthes micranthidifolia: Lettuceleaf Saxifrag, Branch Lettuce, or Brook Lettuce Mitchella repens
The Endemic Flora of Tasmania was written by Dr Winifred Curtis with coloured lithographs by botanical illustrator, Margaret Stones. [1] It is a six-volume book that was commissioned by the 7th Baron Talbot of Malahide (1912-1973), an Irish peer, and published by the Ariel Press in 1967.
It took six years before Sprengel published the work of his own research. The book was based on the studies of 461 plants, presenting some 25 copperplate engravings based on his own drawings. [1] Sprengel identified that flowers were essentially organs adapted in their structures to attract insects, which events aided in pollinating the plant.