A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals, and Their Application in the Arts, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy. Illus. by Several Hundred FiguresBlackie and Son, 1855 - 720 páginas |
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