Certain plants produce some flowers with only male parts (staminate flowers) and some flowers with only female parts (pistillate flowers). Cucumbers and squash, pictured here, are a good example. The ...

DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...

Sometimes the teacher in me takes over and I must communicate a little lesser-known information about plants. Today's lesson is about bamboo. We don't have any bamboos growing outdoors in Michigan, ...

A wet early spring did not deter a number of Oregon Connections Academy students, who took advantage of The Oregon Garden setting for a refreshing field-trip lesson on Thursday, April 18. ORCA ...

IN his far-reaching essay on “Education,” Mr. Herbert Spencer remarks: “In education the process of self-development should be encouraged to the uttermost. Children should be led to make their own ...

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Al Will is a botany professor but on this day he looks more like Mr. Food, the chef on Channel 10. He is standing before his Broward Community College class wearing a white coat and an apron, and ...

Bringing a poinsettia home this holiday season? These horticultural facts may make you look at this beloved holiday decoration a little differently. The foil-covered, potted poinsettia that we know ...