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 ...

Plants are amazing creatures. They don't have the sort of nervous system we do and they are mostly incapable of movement. They none-the-less communicate with one another and with the other creatures ...

What life lessons can a water flower teach us? A lot, apparently. The author had to resort to a botany lesson recently when ...

Fresh figs and ‘maters right from the garden, among the most blissful culinary delights ever, are Southern gardeners’ heaven on earth. But it has been years since I enjoyed tangy home-grown salsa and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of Wade Batson’s former students gathered for his 100th birthday party two years ago. Batson is in the rocking chair in the center. Bonnie Dutton PROVIDED PHOTO Wade Batson was one of those ...