The Uses of plants : A manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years/ George Simonds Boulger.

By:

Boulger, George Simonds

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: viii, 224 pages : illustrations, 22 cmISBN:

9781108068703

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

581. BOU

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Sciences	Non-fiction	581. BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		41031

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.

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