Wild Flowers as They Grow: Photographed in Colour Direct From Nature (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

H. Essenhigh Corke

9780267812158: Wild Flowers as They Grow: Photographed in Colour Direct From Nature (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267812159 ISBN 13: 9780267812158

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Wild Flowers as They Grow: Photographed in Colour Direct From Nature

Now a bulb, to be precise, is really a compound affair. In the centre is a dwarf stem bearing leaf and flower-buds; surrounding it are layer upon layer of scales, thick and white because of the starch they have stored. Outside these are dry, brown scales which largely protect the inner white ones from small nibbling animals. By midsummer days the bulb was filled, the store completed, and the leaves; their work done, were yellow and dead, and soon the plant had faded from the face of the earth to sleep until its reappearance with the spring.

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