Agriculture is what makes our world go around. In this book you will find information explaining the definition of Agriculture and what it is. It explains many important points of this growing... More > economic endeavor and it helps people understand why it is so important. This book is wonderful anyone of any age.< Less
Agriculture is what makes our world go around. In this book you will find information explaining the definition of Agriculture and what it is. It explains many important points of this growing... More > economic endeavor and it helps people understand why it is so important. This book is wonderful anyone of any age.< Less
In the fall of 1890 Dr. George Vasey, then Botanist of the
Department of Agriculture, arranged with me to prepare a revision
of North American Cactaceae. Owing to the peculiar difficulty... More > of
preserving material the family was poorly represented, even in
our leading herbaria. To secure a large amount of additional
material in the way of specimens and field notes the Department
authorized me to visit the region of the Mexican boundary during
the summer of 1891. Preliminary to this exploration it was
necessary to examine the Engelmann collection of Cactaceae, in
the possession of the Missouri Botanical Garden. This
collection, supplemented by the continual additions made at the
garden, is by far the largest collection of skeletons and living
specimens in this country, and also contains the large majority
of our types.< Less
In the fall of 1890 Dr. George Vasey, then Botanist of the
Department of Agriculture, arranged with me to prepare a revision
of North American Cactaceae. Owing to the peculiar difficulty... More > of
preserving material the family was poorly represented, even in
our leading herbaria. To secure a large amount of additional
material in the way of specimens and field notes the Department
authorized me to visit the region of the Mexican boundary during
the summer of 1891. Preliminary to this exploration it was
necessary to examine the Engelmann collection of Cactaceae, in
the possession of the Missouri Botanical Garden. This
collection, supplemented by the continual additions made at the
garden, is by far the largest collection of skeletons and living
specimens in this country, and also contains the large majority
of our types.< Less
A book of short lyric poems & fables about catastrophe, war, faith, perseverance and the everyday lives of refugees & survivors. There's a lot of mud in this book, a lot of broken shell... More > casings & broken bodies. Things are grim but if we keep looking, we can often find reasons to keep going. There are some never-published poems from 2007 in here, and some poems from as far back as 1983.< Less
A book of short lyric poems & fables about catastrophe, war, faith, perseverance and the everyday lives of refugees & survivors. There's a lot of mud in this book, a lot of broken shell... More > casings & broken bodies. Things are grim but if we keep looking, we can often find reasons to keep going. There are some never-published poems from 2007 in here, and some poems from as far back as 1983.< Less
This book is the result of a two-month long independent study project. This project analyzed the designs of flue-cured tobacco barns in North Carolina. Through research, site visits, oral... More > interviews, and documenting individual barns, I gained knowledge about why the architectural design of tobacco barns is the way it is.< Less
Scholarly, well researched monograph on the history of Agriculture of Virginia during the Colonial period. Helps to understand the agricultural focus and practice in the 17th and 18th centuries.
