Abstract
THIS delightful book is not intended as a textbook, but is designed to engage the interest of young readers in the study of plant life. With this aim in view, the author has adopted a unique style of writing which forces itself upon the reader so that he almost learns without thinking. Technical terms, though not altogether excluded, are relegated to the background, and though the style of writing is attractively conversational and non-scientific in the technical sense, no one would condemn the author for that. The teaching botanist would agree that such chapter headings as “Magic in the Factory”, “Flower-Parents and their Children”, “Adventuring into the Outer World” and “Family Gatherings” convey just the right shade of meaning to the child-mind.
Botany for Fun
By Gareth H. Browning. Pp. xii + 176. (London: Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1938.) 5s. net.
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Botany for Fun. Nature 143, 139 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143139c0
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