botany, economic

Gives information about strange and wonderful easy-to-grow plants, including venus flytrap, papyrus, passionflower, and flowering kale.

Traces the plant-derived materials that are found in everything from car tires to toothpaste, and looks at the uses native people make of plants.

Describes some two hundred plant species and their usefulness to man in foods, beverages, medicines, fabrics, fuels, and other products.

Surveys the many uses of plants, including nutrition, fuel, building, gardening, and medicine.