Botany
A Junior Book for Schools

First published in 1927, this popular book by Professor R. H. Yapp is a well-illustrated and easy-to-read introduction to botany.

R. H. Yapp (Author)

9781107619548, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 August 2013

218 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.22 kg

First published in 1927 as the third edition of a 1923 original, this popular book by Professor R. H. Yapp is a well-illustrated and easy-to-read introduction to botany. The text includes detailed botanical drawings and suggestions for simple practical experiments to be performed by the reader; as Yapp explains in his guide, 'this book is intended to help you find things out for yourself, not merely to tell you what other people have found out'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in botany or in the history of botanical education.

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
1. The groundsel, the sycamore and the cock's-foot grass
2. Flowers and fruits
3. Seeds
4. The germination of seeds
5. The conditions necessary for germination
6. The growth of plants
7. Roots and their work
8. The soil
9. The transpiration of water
10. How plants economize water
11. How a green leaf makes food from the air
12. Leaves
13. How foliage leaves get light
14. The ways in which a plant uses its food
15. The movements of plants
16. How plants obtain air
17. Other ways of obtaining food
18. The different forms of plants. I. Herbs
19. The different forms of plants. II. Trees and shrubs
20. How plants pass the winter. I. Trees and shrubs
21. How plants pass the winter. II. Herbs
22. The flower of the buttercup
23. Other flowers
24. Cross- and self-pollination
25. Pollination continued. Inflorescences
26. Fruits and the migration of plants
27. Fruits and the migration of plants - continued
28. The relationships of flowering plants
Appendix. The names of plants
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]