Rare Botanic
Posted June 6, 2010
By admin
On sunny days, students do tend to gather in St. Stephen's Green?
I've never been, but I live in Belfast, and when it's sunny (the rarely) the burden of the students cover the lawn in botanical gardens. Just wondering if the same happens in Dublin.
No. They tend to meet in bars.
Harry Potter’s Herbology Class with Rare Books
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World $8.96 Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication. In m… |
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New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art $26.35 The magnificent old, the masterful new, this is the premise in this lush publication with 180 plant portraits that span 1,000 years. These portraits were selected from the unique collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood and from the rich treasures of Oxford’s libraries and museums…. |
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The Art of Flowers: A Celebration of Botanical Illustration, Its Masters and Methods $35.00 A visual celebration of the very best in botanical art! Featuring rare, never-before-published works from such renowned nineteenth-century masters as P.J. Redouté, Augusta Withers, Jane Loudon, and Walter Hood, The Art of Flowers is filled with gorgeous examples and innovative techniques for capturing the incomparable beauty of flowers on paper.This unique guide discusses simple botany basics and… |