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A Garden of Marvels

How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
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Oct 15, 2019patcarstensen rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A delightful mix of science and popular culture (such as pumpkin boat races in Maine)
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Sep 04, 2014
NYPL Staff Pick Everyone likes a book about sex. Kassinger gives us a scientific look at the subject and how it involves plants, as well as plant anatomy, and generally how plants grow in layman's terms. It is an interweaving of history,…
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Apr 23, 2014lshapir2 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Good read, lots of interesting facts and anecdotes that made me appreciate my own garden and gardening efforts a bit better. She does tend to get somewhat technical in places (when explaining scientific processes involved in photosynthesis…