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Chapters: Botanical Gardens in Ohio, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Toledo Zoo, Franklin Park Conservatory, Spring Grove Cemetery, Holden Arboretum, Dawes Arboretum, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Schoepfle Garden, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Kingwood Center, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Fellows Riverside Gardens, Krohn Conservatory, Schedel Arboretum and Gardens, Sculpture in the Park, Mount Airy Arboretum, Chadwick Arboretum, Secrest Arboretum, Gardenview Horticultural Park, R. A. Stranahan Arboretum, Inniswood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, Cox Arboretum and Gardens Metropark, Toledo Botanical Garden, Stanley M. Rowe Arboretum, Ramser Arboretum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Toledo Zoo -Toledo Zoo's bridgeWhen a woodchuck was donated to the City of Toledo in 1900, the idea of a zoo began. Until 1982, it was run by the city. The Toledo Zoological Society got a hold of the zoo that year, and that is when the zoo took off. It added many new exhibits, including the African Savanna, home of the hippoquarium. World's first Hippoquarium, Phase 1 of the African Savanna, opens at the Toledo Zoo in June 1986. Phase 2 of the African Savanna opens in June 1987. In 1998, the zoo renovated the Aviary, which was originally built around 1930. In 1999, the Toledo Zoo received the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Exhibit Award for Excellence. In recent years, the zoo built a pedestrian bridge over the Anthony Wayne Trail. Africa! opened on May 1, 2004 and is 12 acres (49,000 m) large. The main exhibit, the African plains, is 5 acres (20,000 m). It has artificial termite mounds for the free-roaming African animals, such as the East African Crowned Cranes, Grant's Zebra, Greater Kudu, Helmeted Guineafowl, impala, Masai giraffe, Nile lechwe,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7921845 ... Read more

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This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists. Following the same criteria as in earlier investigations, the authors have examined the vast holdings of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium to select little-known plant uses and to record any note suggesting biodynamic constituents--i.e., those having effects on living tissue--from skin irritants and poisons and medications of any kind to foods, beverages, and spices. They have also included species whose applications suggest other kinds of unreported chemical activity, plants associated with magic or ritual which affected people in some unusual way.

Listing the notes in the order in which the species were found in the collection, family by family, the authors call attention to similar characteristics in related species and families having biodvnamic properties in common. Each entry begins with the Latin name of the specimen, cites the country in which it was collected, the collector's name, and his held number for the plant, and then quotes the ethnobotanical or other note of interest.

While in itself a valuable reference work in the search for clues to useful plants, New Plant Source for Drugs and Foods also will enhance the value of the first volume by allowing a comparison of entries.

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This is volume 41 of the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden published by the NYBG Press. Pereskia is a genus of 16 species of neotropical trees and shrubs. A formal taxonomic treatment is needed because Vaupel's monograph (1925) is out of date. ... Read more

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The genus Trixis of the Compositae (tribe Mutisieae, subtribe Nassauviinae) has two centers of diversity, one in southwestern Mexico and one in the area of northern Argentina, Uruguqy, and southern Brazil. The genus has never been studied as a whole. The two groups come into contact only in southern Central America and in the West Indies, where the ranges of the widespread T. inul and T. divaricata overlap. ... Read more

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Since the publication of Mez (1889), there has been no large-scale, taxonomic treatment of the New World species of the family Lauraceae. Because amny species are of economic importance, particular attention should be paid to this large group of tropical plants. Expeditions to the tropics in past decades have brought out much new material which has been treated, for the most part, in regional publications. In addition to these, monographic study is essential in order that phylogenetic, taxonomic, and nomenclatural problems may be more easily recognized and in many cases resolved satisfactorily. It is for these reasons that the research on the genus Persea here presented was undertaken ... Read more

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The mosses of Maine, families Sphagnaceae through Timmiaceae, are keyed, illustrated, and described in detail. Within this volume, 23 famiiles, 72 genera, and 231 species are treated. ... Read more

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The Nags Head Woods complex (Outer Banks, Dare County, North Carolina) hosts the best remaining example of exceedingly rare, mid-Atlantic maritime deciduous forest and also includes an extensive system of open dunes, evergreen forest, interdunal ponds, swamps, and marshes. Over 550 plant species in 122 families have been reported from the site, constituting nearly three-quarters of the known Outer Banks flora. This manual was developed based on field and herbarium study and seeks to document the rich flora of Nags Head Woods. Keys, descriptions, and illustrations, as well as notes on phenology, habitat, and the broader distribution of included taxa on the Outer Banks, are provided. Relevant herbarium specimens known to the author from the main depositories of Outer Banks collections, as well as important literature reports, are cited after the species descriptions. ... Read more

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Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens takes garden lovers on a tour of nine of the most beautiful and exotic gardens in the world. This is an insider`s guide and history of botanical gardens in the U.S. Canada, England, France, the Netherlands, and Singapore. The founders of the first botanical gardens in the sixteenth century attempted to create a Garden of Eden that contained a complete collection of all things created by God. Although in other cultures it has different names, humans have yearned for this mythic place of peace and joy from which they were expelled. Author Mary Soderstrom explores how these gardens have evolved over the last 400 years by guiding us through the botanical gardens that she has visited. GARDENS OF EMPIRE, Hortus Botanicus at Leiden in the Netherlands, Jardin des plantes in Paris, Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew near London, GARDENS OFTHE NINETEENTH CENTURY Singapore, Botanic Gardens Missouri, Botanical Garden in St. Louis, New York Botanical Garden, GARDENS OFTHE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Jardin botanique de Montréal, Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Garden in San Francisco, University of British Columbia,Botanical Garden, Vancouver. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In memory of 100 years NYBG
This is an easy to read, well-illustrated, book of what the New York Botanical Garden is and does. Gives an insight of how the NYBG was a social necessity for eighteenth century socialites when it came into being, andhow today it does social work for plant deprived New Yorkers. Also gives abehind-the-scenes view of the scientific work the Botanic Gardendoes.

Although this hardly is a must-have-book this book will notdisgrace any bookshelf.

(31,2x23,5x2,2cm; 190 pages; color photographsincluding a classic one of (now sir) Ghillean Prance with his Victoriaamazonica) ... Read more