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Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII — Alphonse de Candolle

Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

Alphonse de Candolle

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 492 pages

A botanical essay collection by Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle on the origins of cultivated plants. It surveys what was known about the geographic origins and history of many crop species, from cereals to fruits and vegetables. It will appeal to listeners interested in the meeting of botany, agriculture and early human history.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES.

VOLUME XLVIII

ORIGIN OF

CULTIVATED PLANTS.

BY

ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE INSTITUTE OF

FRANCE;

FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, EDINBURGH,

AND DUBLIN; OF THE ACADEMIES OF ST. PETERSBURG,

STOCKHOLM, BERLIN, MUNICH, BRUSSELS, COPENHAGEN, AMSTERDAM,

ROME, TURIN, MADRID, BOSTON, ETC.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

1908.

AUTHOR’S PREFACE.

Tƒŧ knowledge of the origin of cultivated plants is interesting to agriculturists, to botanists, and even to historians and philosophers concerned with the dawnings of civilization.

I went into this question of origin in a chapter in my work on

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Contents

  1. ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTS.
  2. AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. PART I.
  5. CHAPTER I.
  6. CHAPTER II.
  7. PART II.
  8. CHAPTER I.
  9. CHAPTER II.
  10. CHAPTER III.
  11. CHAPTER IV.
  12. CHAPTER V.
  13. PART III.
  14. CHAPTER I.
  15. GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES.
  16. CHAPTER II.
  17. INDEX.
  18. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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