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Originally published in 1950s, this beautiful picture book introduces children to plants.

Contents Covered:

• Plants - living and growing
• Why plants are important
• Food-making laboratories
• How plants are built
• From the air
• From the ground
• Plant pipelines
• Using the food
• Stems grow in many ways
• Leaves have many shapes and sizes
• Getting energy
• Making new plants
• How bees help
• Other helpers
• Some ways of spreading pollen
• When the wind blows
• Packaged plants
• Travelers
• Some of the ways seeds travel
• Springtime
• Roots down, stems up
• Young plants
• Seeds are important
• Plants have many kinds of fruit
• Other ways that new plants grow
• Too small to see
• The harmful bacteria
• More helpful than harmful
• Nitrate makers
• More helpers
• Living almost anywhere
• How fungi grow
• A fungus you know
• The green plants' enemies
• Some that are partners
• Fungi and food
• Wonder drugs
• The simplest green plants
• In ponds and oceans
• Rich in minerals
• A plant partnership
• Plant pioneers
• Mosses
• More plants for shady places
• Carnivorous plants
• Plant communities
• Annuals and others
• Trees are among our largest plants
• Better soil
• Plants and chemistry
• Plants made to order
• The obliging algae
• Plants are exciting
• Roots that are different
• Some seed-growing parasite plants
• Wild plants the Indians ate
• Plants experiments that you can do

Price: $1.95

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