The Uses of plants :

Boulger, George Simonds.

The Uses of plants : A manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years/ George Simonds Boulger. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - viii, 224 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.

Introduction 1. Food, food-stuffs, and food-adjuncts 2. Materia medica 3. Oils and oil-seeds, etc. 4. Gums, resins, etc. 5. Dyes and tanning materials 6. Fibres and paper materials 7. Timber and other woods 8. Agricultural plants 9. Miscellaneous products Systematic synoptic index General index.

This 1889 publication by the English botanist George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922) discusses the progress of economic botany in the nineteenth century. Boulger then notes the commercial application of plants in a range of fields, notably food production, medicine, and the building trade.

9781108068703


Botany,
Economic.

581. / BOU

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