Author: Phyllis S. Busch
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Describes more than sixty familiar American wildflowers and presents the stories behind their popular names.
Wildflowers and the Stories Behind Their Names
Author: Phyllis S. Busch
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Describes more than sixty familiar American wildflowers and presents the stories behind their popular names.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Describes more than sixty familiar American wildflowers and presents the stories behind their popular names.
Legends and Lore of Texas Wildflowers
Author: Elizabeth Silverthorne
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442300
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this volume, Elizabeth Silverthorne has gathered an intriguing array of folklore about forty-four of Texas' most fascinating wildflowers, such as water lily, Queen Anne's Lace, honeysuckle, dogwood, and morning glory.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442300
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this volume, Elizabeth Silverthorne has gathered an intriguing array of folklore about forty-four of Texas' most fascinating wildflowers, such as water lily, Queen Anne's Lace, honeysuckle, dogwood, and morning glory.
Wildflowers of Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains
Author: Leonard Adkins
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328779
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328779
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
A Sense of Place
Author: Daniel A. Kriesberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031307903X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Celebrating nearby nature and the marvels of our own backyards, this book helps you introduce children to the world around them. With quality children's literature and simple activities, you can cultivate a child's sense of wonder and joy and teach him or her the importance of living in harmony with nature. These projects span the curriculum and are presented in reproducible format, so they're easy to use. Highlighting the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch), they build connections between students and the land and create in young learners a sense of place-a true necessity for living in the world today. Grades K-6.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031307903X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Celebrating nearby nature and the marvels of our own backyards, this book helps you introduce children to the world around them. With quality children's literature and simple activities, you can cultivate a child's sense of wonder and joy and teach him or her the importance of living in harmony with nature. These projects span the curriculum and are presented in reproducible format, so they're easy to use. Highlighting the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch), they build connections between students and the land and create in young learners a sense of place-a true necessity for living in the world today. Grades K-6.
The Complete Book of Flowers
Author: Denise Diamond
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556430794
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Everyone who loves flowers will revel inThe Complete Book of Flowers. Veteran horticulturalist Denise Diamond's magnificent compendium describes hundreds of creative ways to use flowers grown in home gardens or gathered in the countryside. This new updated edition includes 16 pages of color photographs; recipes which use flowers for taste and beauty; planting, growing, arranging, and drying advice; a rich lore of easy-to-understand botanical information; and lovely home decorating ideas.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556430794
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Everyone who loves flowers will revel inThe Complete Book of Flowers. Veteran horticulturalist Denise Diamond's magnificent compendium describes hundreds of creative ways to use flowers grown in home gardens or gathered in the countryside. This new updated edition includes 16 pages of color photographs; recipes which use flowers for taste and beauty; planting, growing, arranging, and drying advice; a rich lore of easy-to-understand botanical information; and lovely home decorating ideas.
The History and Folklore of North American Wildflowers
Author: Timothy Coffey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395515938
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This highly entertaining reference book presents the popular lore, social history, and practical uses of nearly seven hundred native flowers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395515938
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This highly entertaining reference book presents the popular lore, social history, and practical uses of nearly seven hundred native flowers.
Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail
Author: Leonard M. Adkins
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 1634040910
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
With a new cover, more extensive index, and list of organizations, the new edition of Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail is the go-to resource for anyone interested in the wildflowers found along the 2,175-mile-long Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Stunning full-page color photos by Joe Cook and Monica Cook accompany the detailed descriptions by author Leonard Adkins that include: bloom season, leaves and stem descripotion, geographic range of growth, and location of the flower along the AT. Also included for many of the 94 flowers profiled in the book is the fascinating role the flower has played through history and its value in folkloric as well as modern medicine.
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 1634040910
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
With a new cover, more extensive index, and list of organizations, the new edition of Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail is the go-to resource for anyone interested in the wildflowers found along the 2,175-mile-long Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Stunning full-page color photos by Joe Cook and Monica Cook accompany the detailed descriptions by author Leonard Adkins that include: bloom season, leaves and stem descripotion, geographic range of growth, and location of the flower along the AT. Also included for many of the 94 flowers profiled in the book is the fascinating role the flower has played through history and its value in folkloric as well as modern medicine.
Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail
Author: Leonard Adkins
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897329740
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
With a new cover, more extensive index, and list of organizations, the new edition of Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail is the go-to resource for anyone interested in the wildflowers found along the 2,175-mile-long Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Stunning full-page color photos by Joe Cook and Monica Cook accompany the detailed descriptions by author Leonard Adkins that include: bloom season, leaves and stem descripotion, geographic range of growth, and location of the flower along the AT. Also included for many of the 94 flowers profiled in the book is the fascinating role the flower has played through history and its value in folkloric as well as modern medicine.
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897329740
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
With a new cover, more extensive index, and list of organizations, the new edition of Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail is the go-to resource for anyone interested in the wildflowers found along the 2,175-mile-long Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Stunning full-page color photos by Joe Cook and Monica Cook accompany the detailed descriptions by author Leonard Adkins that include: bloom season, leaves and stem descripotion, geographic range of growth, and location of the flower along the AT. Also included for many of the 94 flowers profiled in the book is the fascinating role the flower has played through history and its value in folkloric as well as modern medicine.
Beyond the Bean Seed
Author: Rosanne Blass
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078963
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities. Lessons integrate gardening, children's literature, and language arts through creative activities that that have poetry, word play, and recipes. Literature-based projects lead to learning in a variety of subjects-from ecology, history, and geography to career exploration and the sciences. An annotated bibliography provides a list of gardening-related resources. Grades K-6.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078963
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities. Lessons integrate gardening, children's literature, and language arts through creative activities that that have poetry, word play, and recipes. Literature-based projects lead to learning in a variety of subjects-from ecology, history, and geography to career exploration and the sciences. An annotated bibliography provides a list of gardening-related resources. Grades K-6.
How to Know the Wild Flowers
Author: Frances Theodora Parsons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Considered the first field guide to American wild flowers when first published in 1893, this revised and enlarged edition contains 156 plates and provides botanical details and lore for nearly five hundred flowering plants personally observed by the author in parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., along with a few found outside this range and east of Chicago. The listings are grouped by color of flower.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Considered the first field guide to American wild flowers when first published in 1893, this revised and enlarged edition contains 156 plates and provides botanical details and lore for nearly five hundred flowering plants personally observed by the author in parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., along with a few found outside this range and east of Chicago. The listings are grouped by color of flower.